Fake News: Further Reading

Abstract: This book explains how to identify deceptive information and seek out the most trustworthy information.

Abstract: This book shows how to distinguish reliable journalism from reports riddled with errors, lies, nonsense and "fake news." Bartlett provides actionable tips for reading critically, judging sources, using fact-checking sites, avoiding confirmation bias, identifying trustworthy experts, and more.

This book examines how journalism is evolving to meet the demands of digital media, where lies often spread faster than truth, and news consumers expect journalism to be a conversation, not a lecture. Examines the historical roots of journalism's crisis and possible solutions, provides context for the 2016 election's "fake news" phenomenon, and explains what savvy journalists are doing to rebuild trust in real journalism.

Includes details on the Russian involvement in generating fake news and the social media techniques used to propagate the misinformation during the 2016 presidential election.

...personalized filters are sweeping the Web, creating individual universes of information for each of us. Data companies track your personal information to sell to advertisers, from your political leanings to the hiking boots you just browsed on Zappos. In a personalized world, we will increasingly be typed and fed only news that is pleasant, familiar, and confirms our beliefs, and because these filters are invisible, we won't know what is being hidden from us.