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An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practical solutions that can be pursued to strengthen the public, media, and truth-based politics. MSNBC's legal expert breaks down the ways disinformation has become a tool to drive voters to extremes, disempower our legal structures, and consolidate power in the hands of the few.. "One of the most acute observers of our time shares . . . a compelling work about a challenge that - left unexamined and left unchecked - could undermine our democracy." - Eric H. Holder Jr, 82nd Attorney General of the United States. American society is more polarized than ever before. We are strategically being pushed apart by disinformation - the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as truth - and it comes at us from all sides: opportunists on the far right, Russian misinformed social media influencers, among others.