How Disinformation Is Tearing America Apart: And How We Take It Back - Couverture souple

Murch, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798180279767

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

This book is about common sense – and do you have it..?

This book makes a single, sustained argument: that organized falsehood is among the most serious threats facing American democracy, that it operates through identifiable mechanisms and identifiable actors, and that it can be understood, traced, and resisted, but only by those willing to look directly at how it works.
The single most powerful idea in this entire book can be reduced to one sentence:

1. Before you believe it, before you share it, before you let it change how you feel, take thirty seconds to check. The toolkit that follows is not a set of abstract principles.

It is a sequence of concrete habits that ordinary people can use in the ordinary course of scrolling, reading, and talking.

None of it requires special training, expensive software, or a journalism degree. It requires only the willingness to pause, and the discipline to make that pause a reflex rather than an afterthought.

The reason this matters is mechanical, not moral. False and misleading content is engineered to bypass your reasoning and trigger your reaction. It travels on outrage, fear, tribal loyalty, and the small dopamine reward of feeling that you already know the truth.

Every technique in this book works by inserting a deliberate gap between the moment you encounter a claim and the moment you accept it. In that gap, your judgment has a chance to function. Close the gap and the manipulation wins. Hold the gap open and you become very difficult to fool.






The democracy this book seeks to preserve was hard-won, secured over generations at enormous cost by people who understood that self-government is not a natural condition but an achievement, fragile, demanding, and perpetually in need of defense.
Those who built it could not have imagined the specific threats it now faces, the synthetic media, the automated networks, the industrial manufacture of falsehood, but they understood the underlying truth that endures across every era: that a free people must be able to know what is real, and must care enough about knowing to defend the means of knowing against those who would obscure it.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798180279767
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 151
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