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The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age -- Sasha Issenberg, Paperback
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How can political campaigns fight back against disinformation?
A decade after The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, which Politico called "Moneyball for politics," journalist Sasha Issenberg returns to the cutting edge of political innovation to reveal how campaigns are navigating the era's most pressing challenge: how to win in a world awash in lies.
The Lie Detectives is a lively and deep secret history of Democratic politics in the Trump years. Our main character, Jiore Craig, is a young but battle-hardened veteran of the misinformation wars, and she leads a memorable cast including LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, whose emergence as one of the American left's biggest donors has forced his adviser Dmitri Mehlhorn into the role of moral compass for a movement still wrestling with whether it should counter fake news by producing its own, and David Goldstein and Jehmu Greene, who are confronting "the Big Lie," in the vernacular of online conspiracy theories, with gifs, memes, and ugly graphics of their own.
The Lie Detectives presents a vivid snapshot of a political class trying to come to terms with an exploding social media landscape and using every weapon in its arsenal to counter the biggest threat it has ever faced to its way of doing business and winning power.
Author: Sasha Issenberg
Publisher: Columbia Global Reports
Published: 03/12/2024
Pages: 212
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9798987053621
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2024
Publishers Weekly 01/22/2024
A decade after The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, which Politico called "Moneyball for politics," journalist Sasha Issenberg returns to the cutting edge of political innovation to reveal how campaigns are navigating the era's most pressing challenge: how to win in a world awash in lies.
The Lie Detectives is a lively and deep secret history of Democratic politics in the Trump years. Our main character, Jiore Craig, is a young but battle-hardened veteran of the misinformation wars, and she leads a memorable cast including LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, whose emergence as one of the American left's biggest donors has forced his adviser Dmitri Mehlhorn into the role of moral compass for a movement still wrestling with whether it should counter fake news by producing its own, and David Goldstein and Jehmu Greene, who are confronting "the Big Lie," in the vernacular of online conspiracy theories, with gifs, memes, and ugly graphics of their own.
The Lie Detectives presents a vivid snapshot of a political class trying to come to terms with an exploding social media landscape and using every weapon in its arsenal to counter the biggest threat it has ever faced to its way of doing business and winning power.
Author: Sasha Issenberg
Publisher: Columbia Global Reports
Published: 03/12/2024
Pages: 212
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.40h x 4.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9798987053621
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2024
Publishers Weekly 01/22/2024
Product Tags:
21st Century, Columbia Global Reports, History, Media & Internet, Media Studies, Paperback, Political campaigns - United States, Political Process, Political Science, Politics / Current Events, Sasha Issenberg, Social Science, United States
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