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Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Why has punditry lately overtaken news? Why do lies seem to linger so long in the cultural subconscious even after they've been thoroughly discredited? And why, when more people than ever before are documenting the truth with laptops and digital cameras, does fact-free spin and propaganda seem to work so well? True Enough explores leading controversies of national politics, foreign affairs, science, and business, explaining how Americans have begun...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Read about hoaxes and lies that have been spread in both the past and present, and learn how they have deceived people. Readers will discover tips on how to identify a hoax and learn to think critically about the information they hear every day"--
Author
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The founders of FactCheck.org teach you how to identify and debunk spin, hype, and fake news in this essential guide to informed citizenship in an age of misinformation. Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading as facts. The news media is often too intimidated, too partisan, or too overworked to keep up with these deceptions. unSpun is the secret decoder ring for...
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Cash-strapped duo Jennifer and Vince hatch the perfect plan: fake a relationship, engagement, and quickie wedding. He will get the money to pay off a loan shark, and Jennifer will keep the housewares to fill her home after her moving van is stolen. Convincing their families they're really in love proves challenging. However, these two unlikely partners begin to soften towards each other. Could love really be in the air?
6) Dakota Skye
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Dakota Skye has a super power. She is cursed with the ability to see the truth in any lie she hears. Dakota is now seventeen and has become apathetic towards life. But then Jonah arrives in town, he catches Dakota's eye and shows her that there is more to the world than just lies. The only problem is, Jonah is her boyfriend's best friend.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Daou, a veteran digital-media adviser to presidential candidates, investigates the underlying value systems and moral arguments of the warring parties, arguing that democracy itself is under assault by an emboldened and empowered Far Right. Daou shows how the digital civil war is waged with words and images that are designed to inflict psychological harm, to injure through verbal violence, to wreak havoc with rhetoric. And he explains that the relentless...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine respectable journalism, foster doubts about science, and engage in massive surveillance all at once, you would make something a lot like Facebook. Of course, none of that was part of the plan. In Antisocial Media, Siva Vaidhyanathan explains how Facebook devolved from...
9) Surveillance
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
It has not been a good day. When Federal Officers Elizabeth Anderson and Sam Hallaway arrive at Captain Billing's office, they have three sets of stories to figure out and a string of vicious murders to consider. One zealot cop, a strung out junkie and an eight year old girl all sit in testimony to the roadside rampage, but as the Feds begin to expose the fragile little details each witness conceals so carefully with a well practiced lie, they soon...
10) Tangled webs: how false statements are undermining America: from Martha Stewart to Bernie Madoff
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bestselling author James B. Stewart's newsbreaking investigation of our era's most high-profile perjurers, revealing the alarming extent of this national epidemic. Our system of justice rests on a simple proposition: that witnesses will raise their hands and tell the truth. In Tangled Webs, James B. Stewart reveals in vivid detail the consequences of the perjury epidemic that has swept our country, undermining the very foundation of our courts. With...
11) Full of it
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
17-year-old Sam may be the new kid at school, but he's got a sure-fire scheme to fast-track his popularity: he's going to lie his butt off. Claiming to drive a Prosche, date a movie star and have a rock star for a dad, Sam soon finds himself loved by everyone. But when Sam's outlandish fictions mysteriously turn into outrageous facts, he begins to discover that having all your dreams come true can turn into a total nightmare.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The promise of Facebook was to create a more open and connected world. But from the company's failure to protect millions of users' data, to the proliferation of "fake news" and disinformation in the U.S. and across the world, mounting crises have raised the question: How has Facebook's historic success as a social network brought about real-world harm? Drawing on dozens of original interviews and rare footage, this major, two-night television event...
