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Author Pfeiffer, Dan, author.

Title Battling the big lie : how Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media are destroying America / Dan Pfeiffer.

Publisher New York : Twelve, 2022.
©2022

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 Superior adult nonfiction  320.973 P476b    AVAILABLE
Edition First edition.
Descript xv, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Canaries in the information coal mines -- From Russia with love -- How Trump almost stole the 2020 election -- A short history of the long war on truth -- Why Republicans need to lie to win -- The anatomy of the MAGA megaphone -- The best disinformation money can buy -- Roger Ailes and the evil genius of faux journalism -- Disinformation and the destruction of local news -- Facebook: too big to succeed -- Poking holes in Facebook's defenses -- The media's conservative bias -- Debunking the dumbest myth: Why MSNBC is not "liberal Fox" -- Message versus megaphone: the real reason Dems suck at messaging -- The high stakes of the battle against the big lie -- Get on a war footing and win hearts and minds -- A modern model of journalism -- Preaching to the Progressive choir -- Starve the trolls: how Liberals can stop being owned online -- Build an army of keyboard warriors -- Signs of hope.
Summary Discusses how to battle Right Wing propaganda with tips on spotting fake news, fact-checking, and talking to conspiracy theory-obsessed relatives.
Subject Disinformation -- United States.
Polarization (Social sciences) -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
ISBN/ISSN 9781538707975 (hardcover)
1538707977 (hardcover)