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Peter Pomerantsev

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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW POD: How propaganda can be a war crime... The latest in our mini series with @trpforjustice.bsky.social sees disinformation expert @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social join Janine Di Giovanni Intro: @goldbergradio.bsky.social Listen: pod.fo/e/67ba67 YouTube: youtu.be/1VUvTOlzigE?...
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Propaganda As War Crime - The Reckoning Project Pt 2
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Lessa @libraryofcontext.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I highly recommend listening to this entire discussion. @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social defines the term "collective narcissism," something both the US and Russia are currently experiencing, and how it leads to the justification of violence. He also talks about ways to counter propaganda.
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Oliver Grimm @grimmse.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The work of @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social has been a lodestar for me for a decade, so I thought it might help enlighten the current debate in some corners of Europe about opening up to Putin again. Read today's "Morning Post Europe" here: open.substack.com/pub/europemo...
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Should we talk with the Russians?
Good morning!
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Europe is the shield against imperialism. The US is gone.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/03/2026
This is one of the best descriptions of the Ukrainian drone war, and its significance for all of us, that I have read www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
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The new world war
Why the battle for Iran and Ukraine is coming for us all
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KI Insights @ki-insights.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Propaganda doesn’t succeed because people believe every detail. It succeeds because it reinforces identity, belonging, and community. @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social explains why disinformation spreads — even among people who know it’s false — in the new episode of Ukraine Insights ⬇️
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KI Insights @ki-insights.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
“One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that everybody wants the truth.” — Peter Pomerantsev In the latest Ukraine Insights episode, @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social reflects on why propaganda works even when people know it’s false. ▶️ Watch the full episode ↓ youtu.be/SIawlg2fSKI
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How to Win an Information War: Peter Pomerantsev on Propaganda and Disinformation
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Ellen Halliday @ellenhalliday.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
It is four years since Russia’s invasion, and 12 years of war in Ukraine’s east. This week, @aloner.bsky.social and I talk to Maksimas Milta of @trpforjustice.bsky.social about the latest www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/pro... @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social and @janinedigi.bsky.social
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Ukraine: four years of tracking war crimes
Ahead of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, researcher Maksimas Milta discusses The Reckoning Project
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 11/02/2026
Instead, Kari Lake has badly damaged America's international broadcasters and wasted millions of dollars of taxpayers money www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Peter Pomerantsev @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Today, I spoke on War & Politics 24 about the narratives Russian propaganda uses to impose the idea that Europe has failed, grown weak, and that Putin is winning. We discussed how to counter this and develop our own narrative. Listen via the link — www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dJi...
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Peter Pomerantsev @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Wars are fought not just with tanks, but with stories too. Putin’s story is that Russia’s victory is inevitable, while Europe is weak. Democracies can challenge this tale. Read on in my FT essay (gift link if fast) 👉🏼 as.ft.com/r/06908caf-b... #informationwar #ukraine #russia
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Putin isn’t really winning. Europe needs to make that clear
[FREE TO READ] Behind Russia’s victory narrative in Ukraine is a system under strain. To fight back, the ‘middle powers’ must work harder on their own story
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 08/02/2026
Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
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Europe Libre @stardust79.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Discovering @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social through www.ft.com/content/36b5... Very interesting.
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Putin isn’t really winning. Europe needs to make that clear
Behind Russia’s victory narrative in Ukraine is a system under strain. To fight back, the ‘middle powers’ must work harder on their own story
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/02/2026
"Voter suppression is one of the core tools of authoritarianism. It is how you shift from democracy to autocracy. And for millions of Americans, it’s about to become the norm" www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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How Autocrats Meddle With Elections
The Trump administration has its eyes on the midterms and beyond.
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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 28/01/2026
And @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social takes Ellul’s teachings forward into the 21st century. Propaganda no longer seems to be driven by persuasion—for one side or the other. Today, it deconstructs all sides and its purpose “seems to be to undermine the very idea that truth is provable”.
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Propaganda, Disinformation and Truth
YouTube video by The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda)
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Newdle: Understand news together @newdlenews.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Authoritarian leaders like Putin and Trump aren't spreading an ideology; they want to undermine your belief in everything—including what's real. Author @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social joined Jon Zieger and @lcsenecal.bsky.social on the latest Signal Fire. bit.ly/4a3XGkG
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When Truth Becomes the Target
YouTube video by Newdle - The Newsroom In Your Pocket
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Lisa Senecal @lcsenecal.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
So much we need to understand about why authoritarianism has gained such a foothold in the US and what we can do. No one better to talk with about this than @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social.
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Ariel J. Blocker @drugdesigns.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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Tents pitched indoors for warmth and makeshift radiators: Ukrainians are freezing to death | Janine di Giovanni
As a war correspondent I’ve seen this strategy used before. Putin is weaponising the savage eastern European winter, says war correspondent Janine di Giovanni
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 25/01/2026
This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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TincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF
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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
‘A cult of death’ Former Soviet dissident on Russia & authoritarianism's global rise Igor Pomerantsev, a veteran radio broadcaster & poet, as well as a former Soviet dissident witnessed firsthand how authoritarian regimes seek to control narratives silence dissent
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‘A cult of death’ — Former Soviet dissident on Russia and authoritarianism's global rise
In an authoritarian society, it’s free thinkers who are targeted by those in power. A book, a social media post, a private conversation — anything can be used against those who refuse to conform in a ...
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Ellen Enders @ellenenders.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Three Seasons of Autocracy in America podcast/lessons (by Anne Applebaum & Peter Pomerantsev) are out. I am starting over w/ Season 1 to refresh my memory but will plow through all three during this week of snow. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... @stevesawyer12.bsky.social @11tulips.bsky.social
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Autocracy in America
Politics Podcast · Weekly Series · Reporting on the sweeping changes unfolding in the United States, and preparing you to think about what might happen next. Subscribe now to The Atlantic to hear all...
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signal ≋ dadalo media ◬ @signal.dadalo.pl · 21/01/2026
No i po przeczytaniu wywiadu zakupiłem książkę wydaną przez Krytykę Polityczną -> Propagandysta, który przechytrzył Hitlera Peter Pomerantsev... krytykapolityczna.pl/wydawnictwo/...
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Propagandysta, który przechytrzył Hitlera • Peter Pomerantsev
Światowej sławy ekspert od dezinformacji przedstawia porywającą biografię Seftona Delmera, buntowniczego propagandysty II wojny światowej! 🛒 Zamów online
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/01/2026
"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Página Internacional @paginaint.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Cuando las preocupaciones colectivas no se procesan, se convierten en terreno fértil para los propagandistas, escribe Peter Pomerantsev. 👉 Lee el artículo completo en paginainternacional.com/articulo/29… #periodismo #autoritarismo #paginainternacional
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Just to be clear: if 'no one was ready' a lot of people fucked up, bc those of us who work on this laid out what was going to happen 8yrs ago. The twofold issue that 1)it's not just a tech problem, and 2) Big Tech allowed itself to be ref-worked into spinelessness. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...
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A.I. Videos Have Flooded Social Media. No One Was Ready.
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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Hey, Ukraine scholars, there is a job! A job! A job for you without "Russian", Slavic", "Soviet" or "Post-Soviet" in the title. A blue-yellow, trident shaped unicorn, in blood and flesh
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Associate Professor/Professor - John Yaremko Chair in Ukrainian History
Associate Professor/Professor - John Yaremko Chair in Ukrainian History
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Jakob @jwdl.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
@peterpomerantsev.bsky.social i @dagensnyheter.bsky.social
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Peter Pomerantsev: EU kan vinna första ronden i den digitala tuppfäktningen
Techmagnater gillar att framställa sig som yttrandefrihetens riddare men EU har goda chanser att vinna första ronden i den digitala tuppfäktningen.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/12/2025
'In Ukraine, the state itself is investigating the government, the cabinet, the president’s closest advisers. By contrast, it is impossible to imagine Kash Patel’s FBI investigating anyone in Trump’s White House. Any Russian who investigates Putin goes to jail" www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Trumpian Corruption Is Worse Than Ukrainian Corruption
The people of Ukraine want an honest government, even as American and Russian kleptocrats circle their country.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/12/2025
The EU has slapped a fine on Musk's X because it is untransparent and supports deceptive practices. Nothing to do with "censorship."
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted.
Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.
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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 04/12/2025
Content moderation is not censorship; platforms have a First Amendment right to set civility guidelines on their services. Fact-checking is not censorship; it is a type of counterspeech that Justice Brandeis would have favored. Online safety is not censorship; it prevents voices being silenced.
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Exclusive: Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa
An internal State Department memo said that anyone involved in "censorship" of free speech should be considered for rejection.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/11/2025
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
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České novinky 🇨🇿 @news-flows-cz.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Rusko uskutečňuje sen o rozdělení Západu. Pravým poraženým není Ukrajina, ale Evropa, míní Pomerantsev Vyjednavači Spojených států a Ukrajiny v Ženevě zpřesnili dokument, který má ukončit válku s Ruskem. „Pro Ukrajinu to ve srovnání s těmi hroznými návrhy, co byly vydány před měsícem, je...
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Rusko uskutečňuje sen o rozdělení Západu. Pravým poraženým není Ukrajina, ale Evropa, míní Pomerantsev
Pomerantsev se domnívá, že Rusko se jen tak nevzdá své snahy dobýt více ukrajinského území. Má prý pocit, že na bojišti dělá pokroky a návrhy mírových dohod může Američany držet ve hře.
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Francis Wade @franciswade.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Glad to commission this from @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social on his long-term study of the techniques journalists can (and now must) use to counter authoritarian propaganda. — @noemamag.com www.noemamag.com/journalism-i...
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Journalism In An Age Of Authoritarianism | NOEMA
The media needs to rethink its role in protecting democracy — rather than just chronicling its demise.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 25/11/2025
"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...
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The Economic Impact of Brexit
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
"This is the final post-truthification of a platform that long ago pivoted toward a maxim used by the journalist Peter Pomerantsev to refer to post-Soviet Russia: Nothing is true and everything is possible. This is how you get people apparently faking that DHS's account was created in Israel."
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It's Not All About ME @clairemyfanwy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
If quoting Peter Pomerantsev @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social and Eliot Higgins of Bellingcat @eliothiggins.bsky.social weren't enough, describing X as "a Russian nesting doll of bullshit" is all you need to know this will be a good read. Definitely worth 5 minutes of your time, and a gift link too!
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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 18/11/2025
The media needs to rethink its role in protecting democracy — rather than just chronicling its demise, Peter Pomerantsev argues. #authoritarian #journalism #disinformation #media
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Journalism In An Age Of Authoritarianism | NOEMA
The media needs to rethink its role in protecting democracy — rather than just chronicling its demise.
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Nonviolence 3.0 @nonviolence3.com · 22/11/2025
"Instead of thinking about debunking disinformation, we should be thinking about how to tell better stories…they're stories of action, stories of policy, stories of meaning…And it's up to us to tell these stories." —Peter Pomerantsev
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Peter Pomerantsev @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social on the ‘peace plan’ as theatre of absurd and theatre of cruelty all in one
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Peter Pomerantsev @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Authoritarian propaganda ruthlessly exploits peoples need to belong, latent resentments, insecurities and helplessness. To compete you need to dive into the dark operating theatre of human desire….some lessons from research across Europe thats applicable to to US www.noemamag.com/journalism-i...
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Journalism In An Age Of Authoritarianism | NOEMA
The media needs to rethink its role in protecting democracy — rather than just chronicling its demise.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/11/2025
"Trump treats American potency as a wasting asset, drawing it down over and over to satisfy his personal whims and ideas," says Thomas Wright. But sooner or later, power will drain away www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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What If ‘America First’ Appears to Work?
“Might makes right” is still wrong for America, but opposing it just got harder.
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davidedgarwolf.bsky.social @davidedgarwolf.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Come see Chris Clarke, Clare Longrigg and I talk about the long read! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/magculture...
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magCulture Meets The Guardian Long Read
The team behind The Guardian Long Read join us to introduce this new magazine
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/11/2025
"However terrible the war and its consequent famine in Sudan is today, it can still get much worse" From Alex de Waal, who knows Sudan better than anyone www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...
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Terror Returns to Darfur
Only American pressure can stop the killing in Sudan.
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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
"[A]uthoritarian regimes are reinventing 'news' as a weapon to oppress opposition...This book is the ultimate guide to this brave *news* world."--Peter Pomerantsev DICTATING REALITY, by Martin Moore and ThomasColley. bit.ly/3Xbzab9 @martinjemoore.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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