How Words Can Ignite the World

Uwe Wolff
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Uwe Wolff: NAIMA Strategic Legal Services GmbH, Lectures, Seminars

Chapter 3 in Disinformation Attacks On Businesses, 2026, pp 13-19 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter exposes disinformation as an age-old tool for justifying wars and genocides—from Hitler to the Iraq War to Russian propaganda about Ukraine. Populists such as Trump and Johnson, as well as spin dictators (Putin, Orbán, Xi), use fake news and troll factories to secure power and undermine democracies. The chapter demonstrates: targeted lies have always been the incendiaries of history—today, digital media make them lethally efficient. It provides the historical foundation for understanding modern disinformation attacks on the economy.

Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-51407-5_3

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