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For the last three years of the Obama administration, Richard Stengel, a former Time magazine editor and undersecretary of state, was on the front lines of the new global information war. At the time, he was the only person in the government tasked with undoing, denying and combating both ISIS messages and Russian disinformation. Then in 2016, with the presidential election underway, Stengel observed how Donald Trump used disinformation to his advantage by taking advantage of complaints from American citizens who felt excluded by the current system. In fact, Stengel quickly realized that all three parties were using the same strategy: ISIS was seeking to restore Islam to its greatness; Putin was trying to make Russia great again; and we all know Donald Trump. Told like a thriller, Information Wars will take the reader through a frustrating battle. Stengel moves through Russia, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia and Iraq and introduces characters like Putin, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry or Mohamed bin Salmán to demonstrate how disinformation impacts our global society. The author shows how ISIS terrorized the entire world through social media, and how the Russians became the model for their intervention in the 2016 presidential elections in the United States.