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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

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2024

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Title:	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
Author:	Brill, Steven, 1950- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Format:	Book
Publisher, Date:	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. ©2024
Description:	viii, 317 pages ; 25 cm
Summary:	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:	Misinformation -- Social aspects -- United States. Disinformation -- Social aspects. Truthfulness and falsehood -- Social aspects -- United States. Social media and society -- United States. Conspiracy theories. Polarization (Social sciences)
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.
ISBN	9780525658313

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