| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 392 pages) |
| Contents |
The information ecosystem -- The disinformation ecosystem -- Game time: the US elections -- The psychology -- Defeating disinformation -- A shared reality |
| Summary |
"From fringe conspiracy theories to 'alternative facts', a timely look at how we arrived in the 'fake news' era. Would your younger self believe the news of today? An entire city block blown up by a suicide bomber on Christmas Day because he believed phone towers spread disease. A Representative elected to the US Congress on a platform that Democrats are secretly harvesting an anti-aging chemical from the blood of abused children. Angry rioters in furs and horns overrun the Capitol in a bloody carnage of insurrection. The Prime Minister of Australia employing the wife of his friend who fronts a group the FBI has declared terrorists. A global pandemic which, even as they lie dying from it, people refuse to believe exists. Many who sat in shocked disbelief as these events beamed around the world asked the same question: 'How did we get here?' For those rioters, it was the culmination of a journey of online radicalisation that began with the weaponisation of disinformation by their political leaders and outrageously biased 'news' commentators. Facts and Other Lies puts fake news in its historical context and explains how disinformation has fractured society, even threatening democracy itself. It explains why disinformation is so potent and so hard to stop, and what we can do to help prevent its proliferation in Australia - where politicians and shock jocks are already operating from the same dark playbook." Publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource, title fro digital title page (viewed March 24, 2023) |
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Fake news -- Australia
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Fake news -- Political aspects
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Fake news -- Social aspects
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Disinformation -- Australia
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Disinformation -- Political aspects
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Disinformation -- Social aspects
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Social media.
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Social media and journalism.
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Web usage mining in journalism.
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Social Media
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social media.
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Social media
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Social media and journalism
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Web usage mining in journalism
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| SUBJECT |
Elections -- United States -- History -- 21st century
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
George Allen & Unwin Ltd, publisher.
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| ISBN |
9781761063602 |
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176106360X |
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