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Fighting Falsehoods - Suspicion, Analysis, and Response (Paperback)
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Fighting Falsehoods - Suspicion, Analysis, and Response (Paperback)
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This book offers the reader tools to recognize, analyze, and fight
back against the fake news, misinformation, and disinformation that
come at us from every corner. This volume: Uses real, lively
examples to help readers detect fake news, false claims, suspicious
information/data, biased reporting, and hate speech; Demonstrates
through case studies where to look for information, what to look
for, how to analyze the logic/illogic involved, and uncover the
truth value of a story; Discusses fact-checking sites, what they
examine, and their reliability; Provides examples and analyzes the
components, purposes, and consequences of conspiracy theories;
Illustrates the tricks of using numbers/data to mislead readers;
Explains what to look for to help decide whether to believe the
conclusions of stories based on surveys; Offers a range of
concrete, effective responses to dangerous, exaggerated, distorted,
and false narratives; Examines policy responses to fake news,
disinformation, and misinformation across the world. A key manual
to negotiate the information age, this book will be essential
reading for students, scholars, and professionals of journalism and
mass communication, public policy, politics, and the social
sciences. It will also be an indispensable handbook for the lay
reader.
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