Fake news nation : the long history of lies and misinterpretations in America /

After the election of Donald Trump as president, people in the United States and across large swaths of Europe, Latin America and Asia engaged in the most intensive discussion in modern times about falsehoods pronounced by public officials. Fake facts in their various forms have long been present in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cortada, James W. (Author), Aspray, William (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Political Communication in Presidential Elections and the Case of 1828
  • Political Communication in the Age of Television and the Presidential Election of 1960
  • Ultimate in Conspiracies
  • Ultimate in Conspiracies
  • Fake Facts and Mythmaking in War
  • Rumors and Misleading Advertising in Business
  • Information and Misinformation in the Tobacco Industry
  • Misinformation, Politics,and Climate Change.