The Death of Truth
How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons to Destroy Trust and Polarize the World--and What We Can Do About It
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: viii, 317 pages ; 25 cm.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Six 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.
Subjects:
Misinformation -- Social aspects -- United States.
Disinformation -- Social aspects.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Social aspects -- United States.
Social media and society -- United States.
Conspiracy theories.
Polarization (Social sciences)
Misinformation -- Social aspects -- United States.
Disinformation -- Social aspects.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Social aspects -- United States.
Social media and society -- United States.
Conspiracy theories.
Polarization (Social sciences)
ISBN:
9780525658313
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-295) and index.