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 About It
A best-selling author documents how facts—shared truths—have lost their power to hold us together as a community, as a country, globally, and how belief in “alternative facts” and conspiracy theories …
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