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

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<b>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.<br><br>"A precise description of the punishment cell we have built around our minds and the first few steps back towards light and air." –Timothy Snyder, Author of <i>On Tyranny</i> and Professor of History, Yale University<br><br>“A seminal, ground-breaking, documented and honest examination of two of the central dilemmas of our time—what is truth and where to find it.” —Bob Woodward, associate editor at <i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><br>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 <i>The Death of Truth</i>, with startling, often terrifying clarity, he explains how we got here—and how we can get back to a world where truth matters.<br><br>None of this—conspiracy theories embraced, expertise ridiculed, empirical evidence ignored—has happened by accident. Brill takes us inside the decisions made by executives in Silicon Valley to code the algorithms embedded in their social media platforms to maximize profits by pushing divisive content. He unravels the ingenious creation of automated advertising buying systems that reward that click-baiting content and penalize reliable news publishers, and describes how the use of these ad-financed, misinformation platforms by politicians, hucksters, and conspiracy theorists deceives ordinary citizens. He documents how the most powerful adversaries of America have used Americ

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EAN

9780525658313

Sprache

Englisch

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Buch

Maße

244 x 172 x 35 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House LLC US