Commentary
In this digital media world, despotic lies and authoritarian propaganda spread at light speed, with the goals of manipulating emotions and weakening a targeted audience’s will to resist the tyrant.
District Court of The Hague Dutch press judge Yolande Wijnnobel (L) speaks past Dutch press judge Paul Rouwen about the first session of the international MH17 trial in Badhoevedorp, The Netherlands, on March 9, 2020. Remko De Waal/ANP/AFP via Getty Images
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Austin Bay
Author
Austin Bay is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S. Army Reserve, author, syndicated columnist, and teacher of strategy and strategic theory at the University of Texas–Austin. His latest book is “Cocktails from Hell: Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.”
