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
"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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2024.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Brill, Steven, |d 1950- |e author. |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrmbHwmGG3rX7JcqtcMfq | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The death of truth : |b 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 / |c Steven Brill. |
| 246 | 3 | 4 | |a 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 |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Alfred A. Knopf, |c 2024. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2024 | |
| 300 | |a viii, 317 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-295) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a "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"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Misinformation |x Social aspects |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Disinformation |x Social aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Truthfulness and falsehood |x Social aspects |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Social media and society |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Conspiracy theories. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Polarization (Social sciences) | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Brill, Steven, 1950- |t Death of truth. |b First edition |d New York : Knopf, 2024 |z 9780525658320 |w (DLC) 2023054428 |
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