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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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2024.
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| 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.
