E.R. Flynn reviewed Invisible Rulers by Renee DiResta
An “essential and riveting” (Jonathan Haidt) analysis of the radical shift in the dynamics of …
Review of 'Invisible Rulers' on 'Goodreads'
I studied and worked in the advertising industry for 30 years and during that time I never saw anything as effective in brainwashing people's mind as what social media and skewed mass media has been able to do within 15 years time. Social media and biased news medias have allowed foreign influence campaigns, disinformation, misinformation and propaganda to worm its way into people's heads with enough echo chamber confirmation bias, that half our country lives in bespoke realities that have no basis in truth. These people are easily swayed to vote against, or purchase against, their own economic and political best interest.
The book "Invisible Rulers" does a great job at documenting how this happened, the tactics that propagandists use to achieve their evil goals, and how society has fallen prey to beliefs that are dangerous to its own existence. The book also offers ways to fight back against the …
I studied and worked in the advertising industry for 30 years and during that time I never saw anything as effective in brainwashing people's mind as what social media and skewed mass media has been able to do within 15 years time. Social media and biased news medias have allowed foreign influence campaigns, disinformation, misinformation and propaganda to worm its way into people's heads with enough echo chamber confirmation bias, that half our country lives in bespoke realities that have no basis in truth. These people are easily swayed to vote against, or purchase against, their own economic and political best interest.
The book "Invisible Rulers" does a great job at documenting how this happened, the tactics that propagandists use to achieve their evil goals, and how society has fallen prey to beliefs that are dangerous to its own existence. The book also offers ways to fight back against the strategies of influence so that we can fight back and maintain sanity in our society. If there's one book to buy that will help you to recognize all the various ways of propaganda, and then defend yourself against it, Invisible Rulers is the book to read.
