Facts, Fake News, & Critical Literacy
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Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters
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Gleb Tsipursky
4.14 avg rating — 252 ratings 2. 
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Pro Truth: A Practical Plan for Putting Truth Back Into Politics
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Gleb Tsipursky
4.39 avg rating — 121 ratings 4. 
The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships
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Gleb Tsipursky
3.93 avg rating — 272 ratings 5. 
BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
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John Palfrey
3.42 avg rating — 936 ratings 6. 
Fake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies: How to Find Trustworthy Information in the Digital Age 3.91 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are 3.90 avg rating — 42,038 ratings
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The Truth Matters: A Citizen's Guide to Separating Facts from Lies and Stopping Fake News in Its Tracks
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Bruce Bartlett
3.81 avg rating — 380 ratings 11. 
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The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--and How We Must Adapt
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Sinan Aral
4.05 avg rating — 617 ratings 13. 
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
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Kevin Young
3.17 avg rating — 1,068 ratings 14. 
Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
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David E. McCraw
4.14 avg rating — 601 ratings 14. 
Orwell On Truth: (Authorized Orwell Edition): A Mariner Books Classic
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George Orwell
4.17 avg rating — 1,354 ratings 14. 
The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions
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Mark Dice
4.40 avg rating — 490 ratings 14. 
Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload
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Bill Kovach
3.70 avg rating — 403 ratings 14. 
Critical Thinking (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
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Jonathan Haber
3.59 avg rating — 512 ratings 
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The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
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Sharyl Attkisson
4.22 avg rating — 1,471 ratings 20. 
How Risky Is It, Really?: Why Our Fears Don't Always Match the Facts
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David Ropeik
3.71 avg rating — 206 ratings 20. 
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
by:
Kevin Young
3.17 avg rating — 1,068 ratings 
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Fake News and Alternative Facts: Information Literacy in a Post-Truth Era
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Nicole A. Cooke
3.84 avg rating — 55 ratings 24. 
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters 3.82 avg rating — 9,698 ratings
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Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True?
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Charles Seife
3.86 avg rating — 317 ratings 27. 
Uncle John’s Truth, Trivia, and the Pursuit of Factiness Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader #32) 4.38 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners
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Thomas P. Mackey
3.39 avg rating — 36 ratings 
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The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media
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Brooke Gladstone
3.86 avg rating — 3,087 ratings 30. 
The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information
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Frank Pasquale
3.74 avg rating — 319 ratings 
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The Trouble With Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time
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Brooke Gladstone
3.81 avg rating — 1,423 ratings 33. 
Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
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Lee McIntyre
4.03 avg rating — 1,913 ratings 36. 
The Existentialist's Survival Guide: How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age
by:
Gordon Marino
3.69 avg rating — 1,173 ratings 
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Overload: Finding the Truth in Today's Deluge of News
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Bob Schieffer
3.77 avg rating — 191 ratings 38. 
Living the Bill of Rights: How to Be an Authentic American
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Nat Hentoff
3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings 38. 
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters 3.82 avg rating — 9,698 ratings
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You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
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David McRaney
3.95 avg rating — 4,678 ratings 
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The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
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Daniel Kalder
3.63 avg rating — 477 ratings 44. 
Bad News: Why We Fall for Fake News and Alternative Facts
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Rob Brotherton
3.62 avg rating — 97 ratings 47. 
The Age of the Image: Redefining Literacy in the a World of Screens
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Stephen Apkon
3.42 avg rating — 165 ratings 48. 
Memes to Movements: How the World's Most Viral Media Is Changing Social Protest and Power
by:
An Xiao Mina
3.81 avg rating — 165 ratings 48. 
Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't
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Stephen Prothero
3.63 avg rating — 2,250 ratings 50. 
The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
by:
Astra Taylor
4.04 avg rating — 606 ratings 50. 
Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
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James R. Clapper
4.11 avg rating — 2,368 ratings 52. 
Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
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Scott Adams
3.73 avg rating — 5,088 ratings 52. 
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by:
Hans Rosling
4.36 avg rating — 197,289 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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Rage Inside the Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All 3.96 avg rating — 142 ratings
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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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Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do 4.32 avg rating — 8,625 ratings
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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Timothy Snyder
4.27 avg rating — 89,903 ratings 60. 
The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
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Michiko Kakutani
3.79 avg rating — 4,889 ratings 60. 
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
by:
Alan Rusbridger
4.23 avg rating — 730 ratings 62. 
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone
by:
Astra Taylor
4.20 avg rating — 701 ratings 62. 
Beyond News: The Future of Journalism (Columbia Journalism Review Books) 3.81 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet
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David Kaye
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 224 ratings 64. 
Getting It Wrong: Debunking the Greatest Myths in American Journalism 3.58 avg rating — 110 ratings
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The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and The Public Should Expect
by:
Bill Kovach
3.85 avg rating — 1,690 ratings 68. 
Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet
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Julian Assange
3.73 avg rating — 1,839 ratings 68. 
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The Daily Planet: A Critic on the Capitalist Culture Beat really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud
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Tom Mueller
4.12 avg rating — 152 ratings 
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The Wizards of Media Oz: Behind the Curtain of Mainstream News
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Norman Solomon
3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings 76. 
Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News
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A. Brad Schwartz
3.75 avg rating — 355 ratings 76. 
The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century 3.96 avg rating — 230 ratings
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The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
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Dorian Lynskey
4.14 avg rating — 1,347 ratings 
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Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet
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Ian F. McNeely
3.38 avg rating — 250 ratings 80. 
Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times 4.02 avg rating — 337 ratings
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Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us
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Amanda Carpenter
3.89 avg rating — 390 ratings 82. 
Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy
by:
James M. Fallows
3.91 avg rating — 193 ratings 
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by:
Edward S. Herman
4.24 avg rating — 23,236 ratings 
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News For All The People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media
by:
Juan González
4.21 avg rating — 168 ratings 
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Debunk It: How to Stay Sane in a World of Misinformation
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John Grant
3.40 avg rating — 222 ratings 90. 
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America 3.73 avg rating — 10,295 ratings
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Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
by:
Thomas Rid
4.14 avg rating — 1,450 ratings 
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The Age of Inequality: Corporate America's War on Working People
by:
Jeremy Gantz
3.84 avg rating — 57 ratings 94. 
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The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy
by:
Zachary Roth
3.98 avg rating — 247 ratings 
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Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health 3.76 avg rating — 93 ratings
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True or False: A CIA Analyst's Guide to Spotting Fake News
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Cindy L. Otis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,025 ratings 100. 
Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America 3.58 avg rating — 784 ratings