Disinformation, spread far and wide online, threatens the health of a democracy. But a new book offers prescriptions for how to counter disinformation.

The Death of Truth: How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed to Destroy Trust and Polarize the World-And What We Can Do About Itis a new book chronicling how wild conspiracy came to be so widely embraced.

Author Steven Brill joins us to discuss the book. Brill is an attorney, an entrepreneur and a journalist. He is also the founder of Court TV, American Lawyer Magazine and several other businesses, including NewsGuard, which he co-founded in 2018, an organization that attempts to monitor the vast amounts of misinformation coursing through the internet.

Disinformation, spread far and wide online, threatens the health of a democracy. But a new book offers prescriptions for how to counter disinformation.
<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623364/the-death-of-truth-by-steven-brill/">The Death of Truth: How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed to Destroy Trust and Polarize the World-And What We Can Do About It</a> is a new book chronicling how wild conspiracy came to be so widely embraced.
Author Steven Brill joins us to discuss the book. Brill is an attorney, an entrepreneur and a journalist. He is also the founder of Court TV, American Lawyer Magazine and several other businesses, including NewsGuard, which he co-founded in 2018, an organization that attempts to monitor the vast amounts of misinformation coursing through the internet.

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