Library:Autocracy, Inc.
| Autocracy, Inc. | |
|---|---|
| Author | Anne Applebaum |
| First published | 2024 |
| ISBN | 978-0-385-54993-6 unverified |
| Role | Analysis |
| Domains | Politics & Elections Business, Finance & Scams Technology & Media |
| Tactics | Propaganda Technique Fabrication |
Autocracy, Inc. is a 2024 book by Anne Applebaum.
Summary
Anne Applebaum, a historian and journalist, argues that modern autocracies cooperate through networks of shared financial, technological and propaganda interests rather than a common ideology.
Networks, not blocs
Applebaum describes how regimes such as those in Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela and others support one another with money, surveillance technology, diplomatic cover and coordinated messaging.
Controlling the narrative
A major section covers propaganda: state media networks that operate globally, the amplification of each other's narratives, and the strategy of undermining belief in democracy and in the possibility of objective truth rather than promoting a positive alternative.
Relevance to Bullshitopedia
A recent overview of how state propaganda now operates internationally, linking many current entries on state disinformation.
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