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Lie Machines

How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives

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Lie Machines

By: Philip N. Howard
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
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Technology is breaking politics - what can be done about it?

Artificially intelligent "bot" accounts attack politicians and public figures on social media. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their outlandish beliefs. Campaigners create fake dating profiles to attract young voters. We live in a world of technologies that misdirect our attention, poison our political conversations, and jeopardize our democracies. With massive amounts of social media and public polling data, and in-depth interviews with political consultants, bot writers, and journalists, Philip N. Howard offers ways to take these "lie machines" apart.

Lie Machines is full of riveting behind-the-scenes stories from the world's biggest and most damagingly successful misinformation initiatives - including those used in Brexit and US elections. Howard not only shows how these campaigns evolved from older propaganda operations, but also exposes their new powers, gives us insight into their effectiveness, and shows us how to shut them down.

©2020 Philip N. Howard (P)2020 Tantor Business & Careers Corruption & Misconduct Elections & Political Process Media Studies Political Science Business
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If the author tells you it is one sided and that they have the answer it’s pretty much totalitarian

While the book is good and brings in interesting ideas any author should allow the reader to make of it what they will. If the author keeps stating that this is the way and they have the idea to fix it it sounds they they have other ideas than just presenting hard data regardless of what side you lean with

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