Fake News

- Broken down into 60 bitesize topics that can be read in sequence or dipped into - perfect for the intelligent but time-poor reader - Highly visual, with an image to accompany each topic - One of the first titles in a growing series, Small Book, Big Idea, offering concise, intelligent and playful examinations of the pressing issues of our time Anyone can go online, write something about what's going on the world, and share it with potentially millions of people. We are living in an era of radically democratized information. And it's a threat to democracy itself. Social media has made it easier than ever to spread falsehoods, amplified by its echo chambers and algorithms, and latched onto by politicians looking for convenient narratives. But fake news has a surprisingly long history. This book traces its evolution through rumor, conspiracy and misinformation, Ancient Greece to Donald Trump and beyond. It explores the origins of confirmation bias, some of the earliest instances of mass media manipulation, the deployment of fake news during war and the significance of the internet age, ultimately asking the question: how do we make sense of this post-truth world?