Uriel and Peter discuss the information war over Ukraine, how Putin’s propaganda shapes Russian public opinion, and how we can create a freedom-first narrative capable of overcoming Putin’s (and other would-be authoritarians’) “firehose of falsehoods.” 

Peter Pomerantsev is a Senior Fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and at the London School of Economics. He is a noted expert on combating disinformation and the author of This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in The War Against Reality and Nothing is True and Everything is Possible.

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