Fighting Falsehoods

This book offers the reader tools to recognize, analyze, and fight back against the fake news, misinformation and disinformation that comes at us from every corner.

Autorentext

Irene Rubin is a retired professor from Northern Illinois University, U.S. Her BA is from Barnard College (Oriental Studies), and her MA is from Harvard (East Asian Studies). Her PhD is from the University of Chicago, in Sociology. She taught public budgeting, qualitative methods, and research design and has written many books.

Professor Rubin's research used many of the techniques outlined in this book. Her single-authored books include Running in the Red, Balancing the Federal Budget: Trimming the Herds or Eating the Seed Corn, Class Tax and Power: Municipal Budgeting in the United States, and The Politics of Public Budgeting: Getting and Spending, Borrowing and Balancing. She has also coauthored Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data. Her hobbies include traveling, reading Harry Potter in Spanish, and birdwatching.

Inhalt

1. Suspicion, Analysis, and Response 2. Recognizing Exaggerations, Distortions, and Lies 3. Quick Checks 4. Analysis: Logic and Completeness 5. Analysis by Comparison 6. What Does a Cited Source Actually Say? 7. Conspiracy Theories 8. Problems with Numbers 9. Surveys 10. Response: Fighting Back 11. Afterword: The Responsibility is Ours