Alternative facts, post-truth and the information war

Alternative facts, post-truth and the information war / [compiled by] Grey House Publishing.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Grey House Publishing, Inc (Compiler)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, 2018.
Series:Reference shelf ; v. 90, no. 2.
Subjects:
Fake news > United States.
Journalism > Objectivity > United States.
Digital media > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Mass media and propaganda > United States.
Sensationalism in journalism > United States.
Journalistic ethics.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. A historical perspective
  • Truth is what you fake of it / Micah L. Issitt
  • The fake news fallacy / Adrian Chen
  • The evangelical roots of our post-truth society / Molly Worthen
  • Do social media threaten democracy? / The Economist
  • Language: the most disruptive technology / Charles Hill
  • 2. Bad actors in the information war
  • Offenders in the information war / Micah L. Issitt
  • The new information warfare / Murtaza Hussain
  • Why is Finland able to fend off Putin's information war? / Reid Standish
  • We tracked down a fake-news creator in the suburbs: here's what we learned / Laura Sydell
  • Tone-deaf: how Facebook misread America's mood on Russia / Deepa Seetharaman, Robert McMillan and Georgia Wells
  • 3. Media vs. the algorithm
  • The interest equation / Micah L. Issitt
  • Facebook and Twitter are being used to manipulate public opinion--report / Alex Hern
  • How Facebook, Google and Twitter "embeds" helped Trump in 2016 / Nancy Scola
  • Don't blame the election on fake news; blame it on the media / Duncan J. Watts and David M. Rothschild
  • Don't let liberals end opinion diversity under cover of "fake news" campaign / Mike Gonzalez
  • News coverage says a study claimed fake news on Facebook didn't affect the election / Morten Bay
  • "Post-truth" media really is shifting the news agenda--and more subtly than it seems / Precious N. Chatterje-Doody
  • Trump's "fake news awards" fail to live up to the hype--or the hysteria / W. James Antle III
  • 4. Fake news and your health
  • Fallacies, bias and the post-truth mind / Micah L. Issitt
  • Post-truth: the dark side of the brain / Sebastian Dieguez
  • The new psychology of fake news / Vinita Mehta
  • Yes, I'd lie to you / The Economist
  • 5. Next generation news consumers
  • Solutions to the misinformation age / Micah L. Issitt
  • Echo chambers are dangerous--we must try to break free of our online bubbles / David Robert Grimes
  • Making media literacy great again / Michael Rosenweld
  • The remedy for the spread of fake news? History teachers / Kevin M. Levin
  • Can AI win the war against fake news? / Jackie Snow
  • The problem with facts / Tim Hartford
  • We already have a solution to fake news: it's called the First Amendment / Jarrett Stepman.

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