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Of Sausages and Kings
Individualism and the Disinformation State

Freedom of speech, freedom to access and produce information, and a hyper-individualized sense of “self”—all symbols of the 20th-century struggle for human rights—have been turned on their head by savvy, repressive regimes.

Published on: July 27, 2018
Peter Pomerantsev is a director of the Arena Program at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, which won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize.
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