A new book by P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking sheds light on the background and current uses of subversive propaganda via social media.

An early example of  ‘fake news’ was used during WW2  by Germany via radio broadcast to British citizens featuring a commentator known as Lord Haw-Haw.

NPR broadcast an interview  recently with the authors about their book.

The historian Christopher R. Browning specializing in the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and Europe in the era of the world wars has been repeatedly asked about the degree to which the current situation in the United States resembles the interwar period and the rise of fascism in Europe. He notes several troubling similarities and one important but equally troubling difference.