Posted on Sun 08 December 2019

Entertaining, but ultimately the message of the book could be summarised in a much shorter space: the view of current populist / post-truth politics as an attempt at uniting a disparate set of voters behind a as large and as vacuous an idea as possible, enabled by the splintering of online communities and advertisment micro-targeting.

The author repeatedly draws parallels to Russia, which makes for interesting reading, but ultimately he doesn't offer much of a solution or proposed way forward.

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