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Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon--the legacy of P. T. Barnum's "humbug" culminating with the currency of Donald J. Trump's "fake news"
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[This book] will show you how to identify deceptive information as well as how to seek out the most trustworthy information in order to inform decision making in your personal, academic, professional, and civic lives. Learn how to identify the alarm bells that signal untrustworthy information, understand how to tell when statistics can be trusted and when they are being used to deceive, [and] inoculate yourself against the logical fallacies that can mislead even the brightest among us.
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The rise of the Internet has changed the way news is reported and consumed. [Currie argues that] one effect of these changes involves fake news -- false news items that are spread through e-mail and social media to discredit people and policies, most often in the realm of politics. This book examines the growth and influence of [the alleged] fake news in the United States and beyond.
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