Misinformation, Propaganda, and Conspiracy
1. 
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by:
Edward S. Herman
4.24 avg rating — 23,241 ratings 
4. 
Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
by:
Anna Merlan
3.88 avg rating — 1,781 ratings 
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Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
by:
Thomas Rid
4.14 avg rating — 1,451 ratings 7. 
Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload
by:
Bill Kovach
3.70 avg rating — 403 ratings 8. 
The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It 4.21 avg rating — 578 ratings
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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
by:
Naomi Oreskes
4.17 avg rating — 7,789 ratings 10. 
The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The "Great Truth" About the “Lost Cause"
by:
James W. Loewen
4.35 avg rating — 176 ratings 11. 
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by:
Tim Wu
3.89 avg rating — 7,934 ratings 
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The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions
by:
Mark Dice
4.40 avg rating — 490 ratings 12. 
The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation
by:
Christopher Cerf
3.89 avg rating — 100 ratings 12. 
Manufacturing Militarism: U.S. Government Propaganda in the War on Terror 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
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A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
by:
Russell Muirhead
3.60 avg rating — 745 ratings 16. 
American Pravda: My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News
by:
James O'Keefe
4.35 avg rating — 396 ratings 
20. 
The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread
by:
Cailin O'Connor
3.77 avg rating — 1,068 ratings 20. 
The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
by:
Sharyl Attkisson
4.22 avg rating — 1,471 ratings 20. 
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Behind The Smokescreen: An Analysis of the West’s Destructive China Cold War Agenda and Why It Must Stop
by:
Gordon Dumoulin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 24. 
Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV
by:
Ben Shapiro
3.79 avg rating — 905 ratings 
24. 
Why Trust Science? (The University Center for Human Values Series)
by:
Naomi Oreskes
3.86 avg rating — 719 ratings 
28. 
Conspiracy & Populism: The Politics of Misinformation
by:
Eiríkur Bergmann
3.10 avg rating — 20 ratings 28. 
All the Dupes Fit to Print: Journalists Who Have Served As Tools Of Communist Propaganda
by:
Paul Kengor
3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings 28. 
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How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News and the Future of Conflict
by:
Nina Jankowicz
3.98 avg rating — 387 ratings 28.
The Xinjiang Genocide Determination As Agenda
by:
Gordon Dumoulin
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 33. 
Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
by:
Lee McIntyre
4.03 avg rating — 1,913 ratings 33. 
Everydata: The Misinformation Hidden in the Little Data You Consume Every Day
by:
John H. Johnson
3.49 avg rating — 346 ratings 33. 
You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polluted Information
by:
Whitney Phillips
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 94 ratings 37. 
Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics
by:
Yochai Benkler
4.14 avg rating — 378 ratings 37. 
The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy
by:
Diana West
4.40 avg rating — 121 ratings 37. 
Caution : Snake Oil! How Statistical Thinking Can Help Us Expose Misinformation about Our Health
by:
Heinz Kohler
4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings 
40. 
Liars, Leakers, and Liberals: The Case Against the Anti-Trump Conspiracy
by:
Jeanine Pirro
4.24 avg rating — 1,943 ratings 40. 
After Snowden: Privacy, Secrecy, and Security in the Information Age
by:
Ronald Goldfarb
3.69 avg rating — 64 ratings 
44. 
The Truth Matters: A Citizen's Guide to Separating Facts from Lies and Stopping Fake News in Its Tracks
by:
Bruce Bartlett
3.81 avg rating — 380 ratings 
47. 
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
by:
Alan Rusbridger
4.23 avg rating — 730 ratings 48. 
The Return of the Moguls: How Jeff Bezos and John Henry Are Remaking Newspapers for the Twenty-First Century
by:
Dan Kennedy
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings 
50. 
News Is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century
by:
Pete Hamill
3.78 avg rating — 126 ratings 51. 
Morning Miracle: Inside the Washington Post A Great Newspaper Fights for Its Life
by:
Dave Kindred
3.68 avg rating — 130 ratings 52. 
Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State
by:
Dana Priest
3.77 avg rating — 656 ratings 53. 
The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and The Public Should Expect
by:
Bill Kovach
3.85 avg rating — 1,689 ratings 54. 
Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age 3.85 avg rating — 312 ratings
55. 
Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspapering
by:
Gene Roberts
2.80 avg rating — 5 ratings 
57. 
#Newsfail: Climate Change, Feminism, Gun Control, and Other Fun Stuff We Talk About Because Nobody Else Will
by:
Jamie Kilstein
3.91 avg rating — 462 ratings 58. 
News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media
by:
Juan González
4.21 avg rating — 168 ratings 
60. 
Merchants of Truth: The Business of Facts and The Future of News
by:
Jill Abramson
3.74 avg rating — 666 ratings 61. 
The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
by:
Michiko Kakutani
3.79 avg rating — 4,890 ratings 62. 
Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
by:
James R. Clapper
4.11 avg rating — 2,368 ratings 63. 
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The Politics of Truth: Selected Writings of C. Wright Mills
by:
John Summers
4.17 avg rating — 30 ratings 
70. 
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by:
James W. Loewen
3.97 avg rating — 72,728 ratings 71. 
Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History
by:
James W. Loewen
4.24 avg rating — 576 ratings 72. 
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
by:
James W. Loewen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,110 ratings 73. 
The Disinformation Guide to Ancient Aliens, Lost Civilizations, Astonishing Archaeology and Hidden History
by:
Preston Peet
3.76 avg rating — 95 ratings 
75. 
People's Warrior: John Moss and the Fight for Freedom of Information and Consumer Rights
by:
Michael R. Lemov
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 76. 
Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information Age
by:
Martin O'Malley
4.09 avg rating — 33 ratings 77. 
The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats 4.03 avg rating — 790 ratings
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The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire
by:
David E. Sanger
4.25 avg rating — 3,384 ratings 79. 
Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
by:
Ted Koppel
3.71 avg rating — 5,478 ratings 
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Cyberwar: The Next Threat to National Security & What to Do About It 3.73 avg rating — 2,442 ratings
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The Changing Face of Empire: Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare
by:
Nick Turse
3.39 avg rating — 98 ratings