Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Non-fiction book review - Won't Get Fooled Again

Won't Get Fooled Again by Erin Steuter

There are, of course, other books out there that explore the "fake news" phenomenon and explain how to check a story's viability. Steuter takes this idea a step further. In a series of scenarios we see how "fake news" gets perpetuated, how to check for truth, and verifying our own sources of research, being certain to warn about spoofed websites. She warns us against marking every "weird" story as false and preventing our own biases from coloring our research. Even more than that, she shows us how fake news harms the general perception of truth in news and even of truth in general. While the artwork is a bit rough and noisy, the information is invaluable making this well worth the read.
Advanced Reader Copy provided by NetGalley.

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