Truth Counts : a practical guide for news consumers /
Edited by Matt Mansfield and Ellen Shearer
- Washington D.C.: CQ Roll Call Inc., 2018
- xi, 198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Forward 1. Truth Matters 2. Finding Our Way 3. The Weaponizing of Fake News 4. The Psychology of Political Polarization and Pessimism 5. Algorithms: What Drives Our Filter Bubbles? 6. Beliefs Versus Facts: Getting the Brain to Change Its Mind 7. Correcting the Records 8. Russian Import or Made in America? 9. Final Thoughts Notes About the Authors
CQ has enlisted an all-star roster of writers to look at the idea of truth in our time. They explore ways of finding the truth amid deliberate falsehoods, propaganda, partisan rhetoric and the nonstop cacophony enabled by technology and its sometimes harmful effects on how we see news. Everyone needs to know how to separate truth and facts from everything else