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Troll Factories, Lies and Propaganda
Sted: Live on Facebook and the Nobel Peace Center
Meet photographer Jonas Bendiksen, who traveled to the town Veles – a North Macedonian epicenter for fake news production - and made a photo book that was in itself a lie. Hear about his project the “Book of Veles” and join his conversation with Peter Pomerantsev, a journalist and writer who specializes in propaganda and media development.
Pomerantsev is author of “This is not Propaganda” and “Nothing is True and Everything is Possible” and will join on video link from the US, where he is working as a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. The event will be in English.
The event was a part of "Nobel Peace Talks" – the Nobel Peace Center's event-series about Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov's Nobel Peace Prize. The series is supported by Fritt Ord.
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About our guests
Peter Pomerantsev is a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Agora Institute, where he co-directs the Arena Initiative, a research project dedicated to overcoming the challenges of digital era disinformation and polarisation. He is author of the award winning books Nothing is True and Everything is Possible (2015) and This is Not Propaganda (2019).
Pomerantsev was born in Kyiv in 1977. In his latest book “This is Not Propaganda” he tells the story about his father, who had to flee Ukraine with his new family in the late seventies, after facing prison for “distributing copies of harmful literature to friends”. This story of censorship in the Soviet Union works a gloomy backdrop for Pomerantsev’s tale of disinformation and propaganda in our time. Published in 2019, the descriptions of the information war during the annexation of Crimea seems today like a prelude to what we are seeing enfolding in Ukraine right now.
We are looking forward to having Pomerantsev’s perspectives on the war and the information war that is part of it.
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