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Cyrus Krohn's journey from the White House to pioneering Internet strategy for Microsoft equips him with an arresting view on the future of digital political strategy.-- Chris Widener, author of The Case for Network Marking Trying to shield yourself from disinformation and deep fakes? Cyrus Krohn offers a 'five-step program' to fight back. This book rings true. -- Jill Dougherty, former CNN Moscow bureau chief The insights and common truths herein have never been more relevant, and in sharing what he knows, Cyrus moves our national discussion forward, back towards an honest equilibrium. -- Richard Bangs, internet pioneer, American author, and television personality focusing on international travel Krohn comfortably displays his own expertise on this subject on virtually every page, and...delivers it in a lively, peppery prose style that will keep the most tech-averse readers turning pages...He then offers a five-point plan to begin the address this problem....Overall, the book will give pessimistic readers a bit of hope. A powerful assessment of how online information became unreliable--and what can be done about it. -- Kirkus Reviews Cyrus Krohn is both a scholar of the Internet and a longtime inside player. His experience and insight offer a roadmap for understanding, interpreting, and going forward with perhaps the most influential factor of the last 125 years. -- Margo Howard, author, journalist, and Slate.com columnist

"""Cyrus Krohn is both a scholar of the Internet and a longtime inside player. His experience and insight offer a roadmap for understanding, interpreting, and going forward with perhaps the most influential factor of the last 125 years."" -- "" Margo Howard, author, journalist, and Slate.com columnist "" ""Krohn comfortably displays his own expertise on this subject on virtually every page, and...delivers it in a lively, peppery prose style that will keep the most tech-averse readers turning pages...He then offers a five-point plan to begin the address this problem....Overall, the book will give pessimistic readers a bit of hope. A powerful assessment of how online information became unreliable--and what can be done about it."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""The insights and common truths herein have never been more relevant, and in sharing what he knows, Cyrus moves our national discussion forward, back towards an honest equilibrium."" -- ""Richard Bangs, internet pioneer, American author, and television personality focusing on international travel"" ""Trying to shield yourself from disinformation and deep fakes? Cyrus Krohn offers a 'five-step program' to fight back. This book rings true."" -- ""Jill Dougherty, former CNN Moscow bureau chief"" Cyrus Krohn's journey from the White House to pioneering Internet strategy for Microsoft equips him with an arresting view on the future of digital political strategy.-- "" Chris Widener, author of The Case for Network Marking"""

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Since the dawn of the digital era Cyrus Krohn has been recognized as a front-line digital innovator -- a publisher, political strategist, entrepreneur, and commentator focused on the fate of our fragile American democracy amid unprecedented technological upheaval. From his early days launching Slate.com, where he helped frame the digital information culture in ways that still reverberate today, to his current role advising Democracy Live, the largest US provider of cloud and tablet-based voting technologies, Krohn has labored to make our exploding tech toolset propel better outcomes for society. Business Insider named Krohn one of the Top 50 US digital political strategists, and he has advised organizations internationally including in Costa Rica, France, and Malaysia. Krohn launched his career at the first Bush White House in the office of Vice President Dan Quayle. He worked in the CNN Washington bureau helping produce live television programs including Larry King Live and Crossfire. He led digital political projects for Microsoft and Yahoo and managed digital campaigns at federal, state and local levels, including during the 2008 presidential election between John McCain and Barack Obama. Krohn edited The Slate Diaries, published by PublicAffairs Books, with best-selling authors Michael Kinsley and Jodi Kantor. Krohn has lectured on the Internet's impact on democratic systems at the Personal Democracy Forum, Georgetown University, The Aspen Institute, Harvard, and MIT. He served on the Board of Advisors of the George Washington University Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet and the E-Voter Institute. Krohn graduated from the University of Lynchburg. Tom Farmer is a broadcast news professional. At CNN he served as senior Washington, DC supervising producer and executive producer of Larry King Live, for which he shared two CableACEs and a George Foster Peabody Award. Tom started as an anchorman and reporter in New England local television news. Tom has written for the Harvard Business Review and lectured at the University of Massachusetts Isenberg School of Management. Tom resides in the Chicago area. columnist at Vanity Fair, a contributor to The New Yorker, and the founder of Slate. He has served as the editor of The New Republic and Harper's, the managing editor of The Washington Monthly, and the American editor of The Economist. He lives in Washington, DC

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