Nina Jankowicz > Quotes

“. . . in Ukraine, the Association Agreement was more than just a few hundred pieces of paper slowly making their way through the inscrutable EU bureaucracy. Alina Frolova, a public relations professional who joined the group of Ukrainians Kuleba rallied in his pro-Ukraine public relations campaign, tells me it was the first step on a pathway to Europe and a dream for which many Ukrainians were willing to risk their lives. The cold practicality with which Ukrainians are willing to endanger themselves in the face of a threat to their budding democracy is still something that shocks me, even after having lived and worked there.”
― Nina Jankowicz, How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict

“The communicators of aggression and temptation know that sex, the internet, and drugs are one in the same. They’re an intermediary between the human brain and the pleasure it seeks.”23”
― Nina Jankowicz, How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict

“UN Women, which works toward gender equality and women’s empowerment, calls intersectionality “a framework through which to build inclusive, robust movements that work to solve overlapping forms of discrimination, simultaneously.”
― Nina Jankowicz, How to Be a Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment, and How to Fight Back

“This is how disinformation—whether Russian or domestic, in the Netherlands or elsewhere—functions. It preys on real misgivings, fears, and societal fissures, and heightens emotion, ensuring that reason is overwhelmed.”
― Nina Jankowicz, How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict