Misinformation
Propaganda, fake news, bad science and media manipulation: these books show how they work. You will learn to check claims before you believe or share them.
Misinformation Library
Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion
After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made
Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking with Statistics and the Scientific Method
“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination
Charlatans: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Hucksters Bamboozle the Media, the Markets, and the Masses
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts and Fake News
Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Do You Believe in Magic?: Vitamins, Supplements, and All Things Natural: A Look Behind the Curtain
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
Deepfakes and the Infocalypse: What You Urgently Need To Know
Feeding You Lies: How to Unravel the Food Industry’s Playbook and Reclaim Your Health
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire
Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
Flat Earth News: An Award-Winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion, and Propaganda in the Global Media
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
Google Leaks: A Whistleblower's Exposé of Big Tech Censorship
How to Be Right: In a World Gone Wrong
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions
Language Intelligence: Lessons on Persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga
King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Indivisible: How to Forge Our Differences Into a Stronger Future
In a Different Key: The Story of Autism
Losing Earth: A Recent History
Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Our Past
Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues From Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
May Contain Lies: How Stories, Stats, and Studies Exploit Our Biases
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary
On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
On Immunity: An Inoculation
On Freedom
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe