A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age

Learning how to tell news from fake news from fake fake news: An “important and timely” book on protecting ourselves, and society, from the infodemic ( Library Journal ).   We have billions of bytes of data at our fingertips. But how much of it is misinformation—or even disinformation? A lot of it is, and your search engine can’t tell the difference.   As a result, an avalanche of misinformation threatens to overwhelm the discourse we so desperately need to address complex social probl