Misinformation: What It Is and How to Identify It - Hardcover

by Don Nardo (Author)

Whether through social media or news reported via newspapers, television, radio, or online sources, misinformation--consisting of false facts and conspiracy theories--has become rampant in modern society. Some false information spreads accidentally; but much of it derives from purposeful lies. This book discusses how false information damages society as well as ways to recognize and counteract it.