The Death of Truth How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons [Audiobook]

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English | ASIN: B0CN3RXBY9 | 2024 | 10 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 306 MB
Author: Steven Brill
Narrator: Dan Woren
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 Madison Avenue 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. As the cofounder of NewsGuard, a company that tracks online misinformation, Steven Brill has observed the rise of fake news from a front-row seat. In The Death of Truth, with startling, often terrifying clarity, he explains how we got here-and how we can get back to a world where truth matters.