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In Lies, Incorporated, Ari Rabin-Havt and Media Matters for America unravel the distortions of truth that are transformed into "common knowledge" by a powerful network of special-interest groups and politicians.In today's post-truth political landscape, there is a carefully concealed but ever-growing industry of organized misinformation, paid to create and disseminate lies in the service of political agendas. Ari Rabin-Havt presents a revelatory history of this industry of public deception, which he dubs Lies, Incorporated, and uncovers the ideological groups that have shaped American politics via coordinated assaults on the truth. For more than sixty years, these organizations have successfully obscured the facts, manufactured controversies, and, ultimately, crippled legislative progress on issues including tobacco regulation, public health care, climate change, gun control, immigration, abortion, and same-sex marriage. In an age when deep-pocketed individuals and corporations have the ear of major media outlets - and those media outlets can directly influence policy - Lies, Incorporated is essential reading.
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ARI RABIN-HAVT served as deputy campaign manager on Senator Bernie Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign and was a Sanders aide from 2017 to 2021. His writing has appeared in the New Republic and the Washington Post, among other publications and has been a guest on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and Al Jazeera. Prior to working for Sanders he was host of The Agenda, a national radio show airing Monday through Friday on SiriusXM and as an advisor to Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, John Kerry and former vice president Al Gore among others.
