Peter Pomerantzev on Tech, Media and Democracy
The Tech Policy Press Podcast
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I'm Jewish Ukrainian, and I've Been in the US for a While Now, but Only Once a Month
I was born into a Jewish Ukrainian family in the Soviet Union. My parents emigrated when I was nine months old, so I only really had time to throw up over the Soviet Union and then my parents were out of there. And I ended up growing up in London because my dad got a job by the BBC World Service. So I'm accidentally British and now have been in America like one half years, actually most of my family shows. But that gave me a chance to look at the Russian media system from the inside. And I saw the birth of this new type of authoritarianism, which was really reinventing propaganda. Now all over the world, you see it everywhere, from Hungary
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