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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Misinformation is threatening medicine, science, politics, social justice, and international relations, in problems such as vaccine hesitancy, climate change denial, conspiracy theories, claims of racial inferiority, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Barack Obama has described disinformation--defined as misinformation that is spread deliberately by people who know it is false--as the single biggest threat to democracy. Dealing with misinformation...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As the cofounder of NewsGuard, a company that tracks online misinformation, Steven Brill has observed the rise of fake news from a front-row seat. In The Death of Truth, with startling, often terrifying clarity, he explains how we got here-and how we can get back to a world where truth matters. None of this-conspiracy theories embraced, expertise ridiculed, empirical evidence ignored-has happened by accident. Brill takes us inside the decisions made...
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