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How Disinformation Is Tearing America Apart: And How We Take It Back
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ISBN13: 9798180279767
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 5 2026
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 5 2026
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book is about common sense - and do you have it..? This book makes a single, sustained argument: that organized falsehood is among the most serious threats facing American democracy, that it operates through identifiable mechanisms and identifiable actors, and that it can be understood, traced, and resisted, but only by those willing to look directly at how it works.
The single most powerful idea in this entire book can be reduced to one sentence:
The democracy this book seeks to preserve was hard-won, secured over generations at enormous cost by people who understood that self-government is not a natural condition but an achievement, fragile, demanding, and perpetually in need of defense.
Those who built it could not have imagined the specific threats it now faces, the synthetic media, the automated networks, the industrial manufacture of falsehood, but they understood the underlying truth that endures across every era: that a free people must be able to know what is real, and must care enough about knowing to defend the means of knowing against those who would obscure it.
- Before you believe it, before you share it, before you let it change how you feel, take thirty seconds to check. The toolkit that follows is not a set of abstract principles.
The democracy this book seeks to preserve was hard-won, secured over generations at enormous cost by people who understood that self-government is not a natural condition but an achievement, fragile, demanding, and perpetually in need of defense.
Those who built it could not have imagined the specific threats it now faces, the synthetic media, the automated networks, the industrial manufacture of falsehood, but they understood the underlying truth that endures across every era: that a free people must be able to know what is real, and must care enough about knowing to defend the means of knowing against those who would obscure it.
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