When information is a weapon, everyone is at war. We live in a world of influence operations run amok, a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, soft facts, isis, Putin, trolls, trump. We've lost not only our sense of peace and democracy—but our sense of what those words even mean. as Peter Pomerantsev seeks to make sense of the disinformation age, he meets twitter revolutionaries and popup populists, 'behavioural change' salesmen, Jihadi fan-boys, identitarians, truth cops, and much more. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, he finds the Kremlin reemerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia— but the answers he finds there are surprising.