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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Main Author: Brill, Steven, 1950- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
Edition:First edition.
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Table of 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.