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Book cover for Propaganda and Modern Influence by Randall Thomas
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Propaganda and
Modern Influence

A Field Guide to Manipulation, Cognitive Warfare, Synthetic Crowds, and Information Integrity

By Randall Thomas

Modern propaganda is more than a message. It is a system of audience data, content production, distribution, social proof, narrative laundering, and deniability.

This field guide maps that machinery, explains why it works, and offers practical methods for verification and resilience without turning skepticism into paranoia.

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Release details will be announced when confirmed.

Inside the field guide

From diagnosis
to defense.

The book moves from the architecture of influence to the habits and systems that make information environments more resilient.

  1. Part I Seeing the Machinery

    The influence stack, the psychology beneath it, and a practical tactic catalog.

  2. Part II Domains of Influence

    How commerce, creators, war, and cognitive conflict adapt the same mechanisms.

  3. Part III The Digital System

    Platform mechanics, synthetic actors, generative AI, and the collapse of signal.

  4. Part IV Political Operations

    Campaign craft, operational case files, and the trails that coordination leaves.

  5. Part V Defense and Information Integrity

    Detection, verification, cognitive resilience, and repeatable field practices.

The imprint

Light for
complex systems.

Pattern Lantern is an independent publishing imprint focused on influence, technology, psychology, information systems, and modern society.

Its books are designed as useful objects: carefully sourced, readable without specialist training, and built to help people recognize the structures behind fast-moving events.

Pattern Lantern is a publishing imprint of Byte Digital.

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