The Art of Propaganda: Shaping Public Opinion and Putting Society at Risk
Deji Haastrup

About the Book

In the 21st Century, propaganda has taken on a more prominent and pervasive, if malignant, role in society. Its use is no longer restricted to a few individuals with specialist skills and access to the traditional media. With the new social media and vast technological improvement for manufacturing facts, fake news, conspiracy theories, and disinformation campaigns have become more commonplace. It is now easier to manipulate information and influence public perception of reality than at any other time in human history. The result is a diminishment of the value of truth, a dangerous embrace of delusion and a fracturing of society.

Can the situation be reversed? We must be ready to unlearn what we have learnt to learn what we ought to know. It starts by always looking for the other side of every story.

The Art of Propaganda is part history and part contemporary politics, it is part sociology, part communication and part psychology. It is both fascinating and insightful

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