Disinformation: Books

Media ecologist Neil Postman explains the consequences of the transition from a typographic world to an electronic media world.

From the publisher: "This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms."

A philosophy professor's argument that propaganda undermines democracy and must be countered.

A psychosocial argument for the reasons that people allow misinformation to fool them

Jason Weedon and Robert Kurzban argue that practically all people hold political views motivated by self-interests. From the Publisher: "They show how we engage in unconscious rationalization to justify our political positions, portraying our own views as wise, benevolent, and principled while casting our opponents' views as thoughtless and greedy."

Chomsky and Herman provide case studies of media bias and propaganda from a left of center point of view. They assert that the news media "manufactures consent," manipulating the news to promote the political ideologies of powerful elites.