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Does the idea of a world in which facts mean nothing cause anxiety? Fear? Maybe even paranoia? Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era cannot cure all the ills of a post-truth world, but by demonstrating how the emergence of digital technology into everyday life has knitted together a number of seemingly loosely related forces-historical, psychological, economic, and culture-to create the post-truth culture, Disinformation will help you better understand how we got to where we now are, see how we can move beyond a culture in which facts are too easily dismissed, and develop a few highly practical skills for separating truth from lies.Disinformation explains:How human psychology--the very way our brains work--can leave us vulnerable to disinformation.How the early visions of what a global computer network would and should be unintentionally laid the groundwork for the current post-truth culture.The ways in which truth is twisted and misrepresented via
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