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of two Russian figures—Vladimir Lenin and the much lesser known Vladislav Surkov, a former postmodernist theater director who’s been described as “Putin’s Rasputin” and the Kremlin’s propaganda puppet master—informs many of the troubling political and social dynamics at work in the post-truth era.

l’Open Society Foundation, la plus grosse organisation philanthropique au monde créée en 1979 par le milliardaire George Soros pour lutter contre la propagande communiste. Les complotistes se répandent : le spéculateur ambitionnerait la suppression des frontières, de légaliser les drogues et l’euthanasie, de renverser l’Amérique ou Poutine. L’homme

Brock has cultivated an impressive body of liberal megadonors and assembled an eclectic collection of no fewer than thirty smear-related projects, most notably his flagship “media watchdog,” Media Matters. This collection of groups was cited to me by nearly every Democrat and Republican operative I interviewed as the most ubiquitous and successful