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We can say that this book by British journalist and writer Peter Pomerantsev is about the latest challenges to democracy, about the huge industry of manipulating our thoughts, decisions, desires, about an industry that until recently did not even exist, about new and old tools of intimidation and lies used by dictatorships and drug mafias, religious fanatics and populists, and what can be done to counter them. One could say that this book is about information warfare, bots and bot chasers, trolls and hackers, fake news and the loss of transparent political debate. However, it is also a book about the twentieth century, its intellectual legacy, the Cold War and the KGB, the lost illusion that more information would mean more freedom and deeper discussion, and the search for hope. It is also a family story, and a story of dissidence that seemed to end in the twentieth century, but continues.