Intro -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: The Gulf's Post-Truth Moment -- PART I Digital Deception and the Pseudo-Reality Industries -- 1 Digital Authoritarianism, Deception and Information Controls -- 2 The Deception Order and Pseudo-Reality Industries -- Part II Controlling Domestic Politics -- 3 Making Arabia Great Again: The Evolution of Digital Media Power and Digital Populism in the Gulf -- 4 Automating Deceit: Authoritarian AI and Journoganda -- Part III Trump and the War on Reality in the Gulf
5 The US Right-Wing-Saudi Anti-Iran Nexus -- 6 The Gulf Crisis Never Happened: Pseudo-Events and Pseudo-Publics -- PART IV Projecting Influence Abroad -- 7 Foreign Interference in Elections, Revolutions and Protests: From Iraq to Algeria -- 8 You Are Being Lied to by People that Do Not Even Exist: The Pseudo-Journalist -- 9 Football Crazy: Sportswashing and the Pseudo-Fan -- 10 Covid19's Disinformation Superspreaders -- Part V Attacking Journalists and Silencing Dissent -- 11 Silencing Journalists: The Killing of Khashoggi -- 12 Attacking Women: Malinformation and Digital Misogyny
13 Stigmatising Muslims: The Sisterhood of the Muslim Brothers -- Part VI Adventures in Troll-land -- 14 Talking Pro-MBS Zombies -- 15 The Rise and Fall of Magnus Callaghan -- Conclusion: The Future of Deception and Digital Tyranny -- Notes -- Index -- Back cover
