Description
Product ID: | 9781761065705 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | AU |
Title: | Facts and Other Lies |
Subtitle: | Welcome to the Disinformation Age |
Authors: | Author: Ed Coper |
Page Count: | 400 |
Subjects: | Media studies, Media studies, Conspiracy theories, Conspiracy theories |
Description: | Select Guide Rating From fringe conspiracy theories to 'alternative facts', a timely look at how we arrived in the 'fake news' era. Would your younger self believe the news of today? An entire city block blown up by a suicide bomber on Christmas Day because he believed phone towers spread disease. A Representative elected to the US Congress on a platform that Democrats are secretly harvesting an anti-aging chemical from the blood of abused children. Angry rioters in furs and horns overrun the Capitol in a bloody carnage of insurrection. The Prime Minister of Australia employing the wife of his friend who fronts a group the FBI has declared terrorists. A global pandemic which, even as they lie dying from it, people refuse to believe exists. |
Imprint Name: | Allen & Unwin |
Publisher Name: | Allen & Unwin |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-02-01 |