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Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age

Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age

Coper, Ed

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ISBN10: 176106570X
ISBN13: 9781761065705
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: Feb 1 2023
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.60 Width: 6.40 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
From fringe conspiracy theories to 'alternative facts', a timely look at how we arrived in the 'fake news' era.

Would your younger self believe the news of today? An entire city block blown up by a suicide bomber on Christmas Day because he believed phone towers spread disease. A Representative elected to the US Congress on a platform that Democrats are secretly harvesting an anti-aging chemical from the blood of abused children. Angry rioters in furs and horns overrun the Capitol in a bloody carnage of insurrection. The Prime Minister of Australia employing the wife of his friend who fronts a group the FBI has declared terrorists. A global pandemic which, even as they lie dying from it, people refuse to believe exists.

Many who sat in shocked disbelief as these events beamed around the world asked the same question: 'How did we get here?' For those rioters, it was the culmination of a journey of online radicalisation that began with the weaponisation of disinformation by their political leaders and outrageously biased 'news' commentators.

Facts and Other Lies puts fake news in its historical context and explains how disinformation has fractured society, even threatening democracy itself. It explains why disinformation is so potent and so hard to stop, and what we can do to help prevent its proliferation. It outlines how anyone can defuse disinformation in the home, office or pub, or wherever the deluded gather to spread their nonsense. Be prepared!

'This is a timely account of a growing malignancy affecting all modern democracies'

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