Abstract
In October 2016 documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis introduced the world to Russian PR man and political ideologist Vladislav Surkov. Almost no one watching Curtis’s BBC film HyperNormalisation1 had heard of Surkov. Surkov was a prominent figure in Russia. Widely known for his role in shaping the country’s political landscape, he introduced a unique concept—‘information warfare’.2One of Surkov’s approaches to conflict and dominance revolves around flooding information channels with disinformation to deliberately disorient the populace, blurring the lines between truth and falsehood. This tactic seeks to create a sense of confusion, making it difficult for the public to discern genuine news from fabricated narratives. Both praised for its effectiveness and criticised for its disregard for truth and democratic values, Surkov’s model for the strategic manipulation of information plays itself out in the contemporary sphere from Chinese disinformation regarding the Gaza war to Russia’s attempts to stifle Kyiv’s broad appeals.
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