06/16/2026
This spring, grab your favorite lunch at noon and tune in to virtual conversations with the Prince George’s County Office of Human Rights and the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System on topics from repairing the effects of racial injustice to fighting for equitable access to recovering from exile and loss. Let’s learn together!
Lunch and Learn returns with special guest J.J. Green in conversation with the Prince George's County Office of Human Rights and the Prince George's County Memorial Library System discussing his book, "The Noise War: How to Fight Disinformation and Find the Truth When Everything Is Lying to You."
About the Book:
"The Noise War: How to Fight Disinformation and Find the Truth When Everything Is Lying to You" is a field manual for a world where facts are under siege and lies travel faster than light. Written by veteran national security correspondent J.J. Green, it distills two decades of frontline reporting from Kabul to Kyiv, from the Pentagon to the digital frontiers of influence warfare, into a clear, practical guide for journalists, policymakers, educators, and citizens determined to defend truth in an era of synthetic media and algorithmic manipulation.
In 2025, when AI-generated deepfakes can spark wars, SIM farms can hijack national communications in minutes, and disinformation campaigns can fracture democracies, this book is both a warning and a weapon. It exposes how “flood the zone” tactics, once perfected by autocrats, now undermine elections, institutions, and public trust in the United States. Through vivid real-world cases, strategic analysis, and ready-to-use toolkits, The Noise War shows how to identify, contain, and neutralize disinformation before it takes root.
From pre-bunking to collective journalistic defense, from narrowing the firehose to demanding algorithmic accountability, this handbook transforms complex threats into actionable strategies. Its message is urgent and empowering: truth can still win, but only if we learn to fight for it. The Noise War equips readers to recognize manipulation, resist exhaustion, and rebuild the shared reality that democracy depends on. In a century defined by information warfare, it is not just a guidebook. It is a survival manual for the truth.
J.J. Green is the national security correspondent at WTOP radio, in Washington, DC. He’s also the host of Global with JJ Green on YouTube. He reports daily on international security, intelligence, foreign policy, terrorism, and cyber developments and provides regular on-air analysis on both radio and TV. Green hosts the weekly podcast Target USA, which examines the threats facing the US. He also hosts the weekly broadcast program The Hunt, and conducts in-depth interviews with experts on ISIS, al-Qaida, the Taliban and other emerging terror threats. He has been embedded with the US military three times in war zones. He’s traveled to 55 countries to cover stories. Green was awarded an honorary doctorate by Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont in 2023 for his outstanding accomplishments in journalism. He is the recipient of the 2017 Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation award for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense for his series Anatomy of a Russian Attack. He has also received a National Edward R. Murrow Award in 2009 for his national security reporting.
