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The death of truth : how social media and the internet gave snake oil salesmen and demagogues the weapons they needed to destroy trust and polarize the world - and what we can do about it
Published 2024 by Knopf, New York
ISBN 9780525658313
Bib Id 1264849
Edition First edition.
Description 336 p.
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cam a22 8i 4500
LCCN
2023-054427
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9780525658313 (hardcover) $30.00
0525658319
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302.231 B
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The death of truth : how social media and the internet gave snake oil salesmen and demagogues the weapons they needed to destroy trust and polarize the world - and what we can do about it
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
2024 by Knopf, New York :
Description
336 p.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Seven times seven is not forty-one -- The liberation of the good samaritans -- "What's up with your recommendation engine" -- "We're sorry" -- Millions of papers flying around -- ER doctors or tobacco company shills? -- Buying blind -- A vaster wasteland -- Attacking the referees -- Infodemic -- Down the rabbit hole -- America's shameful export -- We are going to burn you down" -- When you can't believe your own eyes -- Resurrecting truth-what you can do.
Summary
"A best-selling author documents how facts-shared truths-have lost their power to hold us together as a community, as a country, globally, and how belief in "alternative facts" and conspiracy theories have destroyed trust in institutions, leaders, and legitimate experts"--
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