PDF-(EBOOK)-Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age

From fringe conspiracy theories to alternative facts a timely look at how we arrived in the fake news eraWould 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 antiaging 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 existsMany 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 commentatorsFacts 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 in Australia where politicians and shock jocks are already operating from the same dark playbook It outlines how anyone can defuse disinformation in the home office or pub or wherever the deluded gather to spread their nonsense Be preparedThis is a timely account of a growing malignancy affecting all modern democraciesKevin Rudd former Prime Minister of AustraliaFascinating and terrifying illuminates so much about humans and social mediaBri Lee author of Who Gets to Be SmartRead this book if you want to save democracyWayne Swan former Deputy Prime Minister of AustraliaFew have mapped our information dystopia more effectively and entertainingly than CoperBernard Keane Politics Editor CrikeyEssential reading for anyone wanting to cut through the nonsense and get to the truthEason Jordan former Chief News Executive CNNWe live in a world that unfolds at a pace and with the violent twists and turns in the plot of a thriller This book captures the intensity of our politics and connects it to the science of misinformation a great readProfessor Stephan Lewandowsky Chair in Cognitive Psychology University of Bristol. 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