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The Reference Shelf: Alternative Facts, Post-Truth and the Information War

Table of Contents

Contents




Preface




1 A Historical Perspective




Truth Is What You Fake of It




The Fake-News Fallacy




The Evangelical Roots of Our Post-Truth Society




Do Social Media Threaten Democracy?




Language: The Most Disruptive Technology




2 Bad Actors in the Information War




Offenders in the Information War




The New Information Warfare




Why Is Finland Able to Fend Off Putin’s Information War?




We Tracked Down a Fake-News Creator in the Suburbs: Here’s What We Learned




Tone-Deaf: How Facebook Misread America’s Mood on Russia




3 Media vs. The Algorithm




The Interest Equation




Facebook and Twitter Are Being Used to Manipulate Public Opinion—Report




How Facebook, Google and Twitter “Embeds” Helped Trump in 2016




Don’t Blame the Election on Fake News: Blame It on the Media




Don’t Let Liberals End Opinion Diversity Under Cover of ‘Fake News’ Campaign




News Coverage Says a Study Claimed Fake News on Facebook Didn’t Affect the Election




“Post-Truth” Media Really Is Shifting the News Agenda—And More Subtly Than It Seems




Trump’s “Fake News Awards”: Fail to Live Up to the Hype—Or the Hysteria




4 Fake News and Your Health




Fallacies, Bias, and the Post-Truth Mind




Post-Truth: The Dark Side of the Brain




The New Psychology of Fake News




Yes, I’d Lie to You




5 Next Generation News Consumers




Solutions to the Misinformation Age




Echo Chambers Are Dangerous—We Must Try to Break Free of Our Online Bubbles




Making Media Literacy Great Again




The Remedy for the Spread of Fake News? History Teachers




Can AI Win the War Against Fake News?




The Problem with Facts




We Already Have a Solution to Fake News: It’s Called the First Amendment




Bibliography




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