About the book: 2020 / Welcome to the era of total information war. Fake news, demagoguery, bots on Twitter and Facebook, hackers and trolls have led to the fact that the concepts of “free speech”, “democracy”, as well as the old ideas about “left” and “right” politics, have disappeared. Voluntarily and unwittingly, every day we become carriers and distributors of propaganda. Is there a way out and what can the recent past teach us? Peter Pomerantsev, a journalist and propaganda researcher, set out on a journey around the world in search of the truth (or what was left of it). He visited the Philippines, Mexico, the USA, Russia, the UK, where he met Twitter revolutionaries, online populists, jihadists, bot farmers and other unsung people whose actions determine public opinion and our future. “This is not propaganda” - his report from the battlefield for reliable reality.