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"Fake news has revealed a dark side of networks: an almost unstoppable ability to spread false and misleading information, changing people's perception of reality and shaking the political establishment. The Misinformation Age is a timely, engaging narrative of how this happened and how the mix of fake news and networks is changing our world."?Albert-László Barabási, author of Linked: The New Science of Networks
"In this perilous moment?when knowledge is powerfully eroded by new and effective campaigns of misinformation?O?Connor and Weatherall offer a critically important philosophical defense of evidence, facts, and above all, the truth."?Allan M. Brandt, Harvard University?The Misinformation Age is the best book I've read on why the fake-news epidemic is afflicting us and what we can do about it. It offers in-depth reporting and provocative analysis delivered in lively prose, a rare combination.??John Horgan, director of the Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of Technology Biografía del autor Cailin O?Connor is associate professor of logic and philosophy of science at the University of California, Irvine. James Owen Weatherall is professor of logic and philosophy of science at the University of California, Irvine, and author of the New York Times best-seller The Physics of Wall Street. Both are members of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science. They reside in California.- Autors Cailin O'Connor, James Owen Weatherall
- ISBN13 9780300251852
- ISBN10 0300251858
- Pàgines 280
- Any Edició 2020
- Fecha de publicación 03/04/2020
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The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread
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- Cailin O'Connor, James Owen Weatherall
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- Yale University Press (2020)
- 9780300251852



