Text Boxes Illustrations, unspecified Tables Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs Black & White Illustrations Barclay, a career librarian who has spent decades teaching university students to become information literate scholars and citizens, takes an objective, non-partisan approach to the complex and nuanced topic of sorting deceptive information from trustworthy information. * Inoculate yourself against the logical fallacies that can mislead even the brightest among us.ĭonald A. * Understand how to tell when statistics can be trusted and when they are being used to deceive. * Learn how to identify the alarm bells that signal untrustworthy information. Are you overwhelmed at the amount, contradictions, and craziness of all the information coming at you in this age of social media and twenty-four-hour news cycles?įake News, Propaganda, and Plain Old Lies will show you how to identify deceptive information as well as how to seek out the most trustworthy information in order to inform decision making in your personal, academic, professional, and civic lives.
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