
The Misinformation Age
How False Beliefs Spread
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The social dynamics of "alternative facts": why what you believe depends on who you know
Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O'Connor and James Weatherall argue that social factors, rather than individual psychology, are what's essential to understanding the spread and persistence of false belief. It might seem that there's an obvious reason that true beliefs matter: false beliefs will hurt you. But if that's right, then why is it (apparently) irrelevant to many people whether they believe true things or not?
In an age riven by "fake news," "alternative facts," and disputes over the validity of everything from climate change to the size of inauguration crowds, the authors argue that social factors, not individual psychology, are what's essential to understanding the persistence of false belief and that we must know how those social forces work in order to fight misinformation effectively.
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A conventional wisdom has emerged since the election of Donald Trump in 2016 that new technologies and their manipulation by foreign actors played a decisive role in his victory and are responsible for the sense of a "post-truth" moment in which disinformation and propaganda thrives. Network Propaganda challenges that received wisdom through the most comprehensive study yet published on media coverage of American presidential politics from the start of the election cycle in April 2015 to the one-year anniversary of the Trump presidency.
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Biased biased biased
- De Maria Stevens en 01-17-20
De: Yochai Benkler, y otros
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The Death of Truth
- How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed to Destroy Trust and Polarize the World—and What We Can Do
- De: Steven Brill
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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How did we become a world where facts—shared truths—have lost their power to hold us together as a community, as a country, globally? How have we allowed the proliferation of alternative facts, hoaxes, even conspiracy theories, to destroy our trust in institutions, leaders, and legitimate experts? Best-selling journalist Steven Brill documents the forces and people, from Silicon Valley to Moscow to Washington, that have created and exploited this world of chaos and division—and offers practical solutions for what we can do about it.
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It’s all about follow the money with programmatic advertising.
- De scott b burton en 11-07-24
De: Steven Brill
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Cheap Speech
- How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics - and How to Cure It
- De: Richard L. Hasen
- Narrado por: Tim Fannon
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
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With piercing insight into the current debates over free speech, censorship, and Big Tech’s responsibilities, Richard L. Hasen proposes legal and social measures to restore Americans’ access to reliable information on which democracy depends. In an era when quack COVID treatments and bizarre QAnon theories have entered mainstream, this book explains how to assure both freedom of ideas and a commitment to truth.
De: Richard L. Hasen
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Manufacturing Consent
- The Political Economy of the Mass Media
- De: Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 15 h y 24 m
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In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order.
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Eye opening
- De EFM en 03-24-18
De: Edward S. Herman, y otros
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Conspiracy
- Why the Rational Believe the Irrational
- De: Michael Shermer
- Narrado por: Michael Shermer
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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Michael Shermer presents an overarching review of conspiracy theories—who believes them and why, which ones are real, and what we should do about them. Trust in conspiracy theories, he writes, cuts across gender, age, race, income, education level, occupational status—and even political affiliation. One reason that people believe these conspiracies, Shermer argues, is that enough of them are real that we should be constructively conspiratorial. But Shermer reveals that other factors are also in play: anxiety and a sense of loss of control, as well as certain personality traits.
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Shermer's Books Are Getting Less Good
- De HisNameWasBruce en 11-30-22
De: Michael Shermer
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Wrong
- How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation
- De: Dannagal Goldthwaite Young
- Narrado por: Rachel Perry
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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Why are so many of us wrong about so much? From COVID-19 to climate change to the results of elections, millions of Americans believe things that are simply not true—and act based on these misperceptions. In Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation, expert in media and politics Dannagal Goldthwaite Young offers a comprehensive model that illustrates how political leaders and media organizations capitalize on our social and cultural identities to separate, enrage, and—ultimately—mobilize us.
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Eye opening and very informative
- De Will en 02-06-25
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Misinformation Nation
- Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America
- De: Jordan E. Taylor
- Narrado por: Christopher P. Brown
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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The American Revolution was not only a political contest for liberty, equality, and independence (for white men, at least); it was also a contest to define certain accounts of reality to be truthful while defining others as false and dangerous. Misinformation Nation argues that we must also conceive of the American Revolution as a series of misperceptions, misunderstandings, and uninformed overreactions.
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History repeats itself
- De D. Littman en 02-18-23
De: Jordan E. Taylor
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Active Measures
- The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
- De: Thomas Rid
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 14 h y 45 m
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We live in the age of disinformation - of organized deception. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts. Thomas Rid, a renowned expert on technology and national security, was one of the first to sound the alarm, even before the 2016 election. But this is not new. The story of modern disinformation begins with the clash between communism and capitalism after the Russian Revolution.
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Grounding book for COVID 19 Media
- De fjness en 05-12-20
De: Thomas Rid
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- H2O_Doc
- 05-17-20
Stunningly good and important
Stunningly good and important book. Concise and very well done. Highly recommended. Worth reading if you are interested in the problems of propaganda, fake news, and how science can be mischaracterized.
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- Chris Alvino
- 03-18-23
Essential Reading for the 21st Century
This was a fantastic book that made complicated statistical subjects easily accessible to people who might not be familiar with statistics.
I consider this book a must read for anyone who engaged with social media or had an interest in how misinformation and propaganda works in the modern era. This book should honestly be taught to all high school and college students, I view it as that essentially.
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- Nikki
- 04-08-22
Helpful and insightful
Overall I liked this book. It’s themes were well laid out and easy to understand. I thought the examples were great and helped demonstrate the authors’ points. It was great all the way up to the last 5 minutes when, offering solutions, they proposed some radical ideas that, if enough time has been spent in details there, could have come across more credible.
However, I would recommend this book as it does get to the point of how and why misinformation starts and spreads and how we need to hold society accountable.
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- Charles Henderson
- 08-11-20
Veritas!
Professors O’Connor and Weatherall make clear that we are all influenced by the people in our network. No matter how rational we consider ourselves to be, false beliefs inevitably creep in from the people we trust. It is nearly impossible for any of us to fully scrutinize the information we consume.
But there is hope. My big takeaway from this book is that we are much more likely to have true beliefs if the primary sources of information are carefully calibrated to the scientific community.
Another big takeaway is that it is much easier to change a person’s view if you share their core values and are trusted by them.
Conformity bias and social cost is also important to understand when trying to change another persons view. Most people naturally conform to the views of their social circles. To break from those most closely held views could come at the cost of the loss of friends and even family members. Hence, many people will choose to hold on to false beliefs for the sake of conforming to the views of their friends and family members and those is their social media networks.
Great book and highly recommended.
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- Dwayne
- 07-13-23
Essential book
Very informative book on current state of misinformation and why it’s unlikely to resolve itself. Also recommend Merchants of Doubt and The Chaos Machine for thorough coverage of this topic.
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- jly
- 06-16-24
Excellent book, important topic, wished there was another chapter’s worth on political misinformation
Good way about approaching the topic - primarily through most of the book focuses on scientific misinformation up until about the last chapter or so. This helps introduce less politically charged cases of misinformation and teach some principles, reasons, methods in misinformation, before pointing readers toward applying these tools toward and pointing to some more politically based misinformation. Even with these, author chooses pizzagate as one of the cases of political misinformation to focus on, perhaps because most people recognize this as gals information acted upon and dangerous consequences of believing political misinformation. Still, it left me a little disappointed that political misinformation didn’t receive more attention.
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- Eric
- 05-14-24
The cult of science
the end of the book is where we can clearly see the aims of the author. curbing free speech and restricting voting rights away from the
" ignorant " public.
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- Robert
- 10-04-23
Contradictory - at best
Setting the authors' obvious agenda aside, their arguments are circular at best. They claim that the truth is hard to come by and people who want to, can manipulate it easily. Then they claim to know many truths. They claim and give examples that the majority can be wrong, but then advocate for rules protecting the majority and silencing dissent. They claim to not want to limit free speech, but then advocate for rules that do exactly that (they conveniently change the definition of what they don't like to be not-speech, therefore speech isn't limited). What they mean by is that THEY know the truth and want to censor opposing views. Because any view not in agreement with them is obviously propaganda and a danger to the public good. For people who rail against Russian influence, their dream society has a real similarity to it.
Having said all that, the information is good. I have a much better understanding of how outside actors (including the authors) try to manipulate me.
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- H.B.
- 06-24-23
superfluous, fluff plus a leftist bias
Although full of interesting factoids, I find this book kind of superfluous. It could have been condensed to 1/3 the length, The thesis? "This time, however, the propagandist can do only one thing: dole out research money. The propagandist finds the scientist whose methods are most favorable for the theory they wish to promote and gives that scientist enough money to increase his or her productivity. This does two things. It floods the scientific community with results favorable to action A, changing the minds of many other scientists. And it also makes it more likely that new labs use the methods that are more likely to favor action A, which is better for industry [or politicized] interests. This is because researchers who are receiving lots of funding and producing lots of papers will tend to place more students in positions of influence. Over time, more and more scientists end up favoring action A over action B, even though action B is objectively superior.". Plus, a leftist bias surfacing regularly (EG it's Al Gore 100% all the way). They are crazy:"We think the interventions most likely to succeed involve radical and unlikely changes, such as the development of new regulatory frameworks to penalize the intentional creation and distribution of fake news, similar to laws recently adopted in Germany to control hate speech on social media". What?! So who sends the GESTAPO to whom, really?!
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