Bombarded: How to Fight Back Against the Online Assault on Democracy
Cyrus Krohn, "Bombarded: How to Fight Back Against the Online Assault on Democracy"
English | ISBN: 1641465328 | 2020 | 260 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1641465328 | 2020 | 260 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
A powerful assessment of how online information became unreliable―and what can be done about it. - Kirkus Reviews
Imagine an imminent America where citizens are bombarded with personalized political messages from every smart device – yet information is so suspect, nobody can tell what the truth is. It means oceans of disinformation engineered to sow false beliefs or simply disorient.
The coronavirus pandemic provided a foretaste of an infuriating, dystopian future. From the start Americans fought over the most basic facts of the crisis, from death tolls to quack cures to the wisdom of stay-at-home orders. The splintered digital infosphere bred confusion and delusion, some of it fatal. Now think of our campaigns and elections. The digital information age means more than hyper-targeted, just-for-you messages from insurance companies and presidential candidates alike.
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