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Podcast: Peculiar Book Club Podcast
Episode: We're Fighting Disinformation with Annalee Newitz and STORIES ARE WEAPONS
Description: Featured : ANNALEE NEWITZ, Stories are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American MindJoining us for a second time, Annalee Newitz, best-selling author of Four Lost Cities, returns with a critical look at NOW—and the way Stories have become WEAPONS. How have disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats—the essential tool kit for psychological warfare—evolved from military tactics deployed against foreign adversaries into tools in domestic culture wars? Newitz delves into America’s deep-rooted history with psychological operations, beginning with Benjamin Franklin’s Revolutionary War–era fake newspaper and nineteenth-century wars on Indigenous nations, and reaching its apotheosis with the Cold War and...