What Can We Do About the Information War?

I’ve been reading a lot about “fake news.” I read the Mueller Report.

I read Enemies where the FBI and JFK told MLK that his speechwriter was on the Moscow payroll.

I’m reading Information War that talks about Russian efforts to divide and conquer the US using racial tension going back as far as the 1930s.

I asked Oshawn Jefferson what else to read. This is what he added to my list:

This one, Disinformation by LtGen Pacepa which Oshawn recommended, was already in my iPhone, and I had started reading it, been shocked by it, but moved on to study disasters for my new USACE job. Looks like it’s back to information warfare.

This one, I read in grad school, but I think I could use to read it again. A companion book, I won’t need to re-read as it left an indelible mark is Dr. Cialdini.

This one published this year wasn’t on the list, but looks good.

Also looks interesteding.

I read this one a couple of years ago and it was really good.

I also read lies my history teacher told me which, of course, is about how we in the USA fail to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about ourselves. But there’s also this, which looks really good.

This one looks a lot like Buzz which I read for grad school and it was quite insightful.

Here’s the Anatomy of Buzz, which I highly recommend.

This one from the Oshawn Jefferson list:

I do wonder how much of our current problem is due to Facebook and Google ads which killed the ad revenue of newspapers and news rooms and depleted bone fide journalists who have been replaced by the citizen journalist. While I love the rise of the citizen journalist, I bemoan the loss of the Dan Rathers of the world.