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Neal Stephenson recommends 6 books on information manipulation (theweek.com)
41 points by ploden on Nov 22, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Don't forget Edward Bernays' Propaganda[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book)


Yes, we had our post-truth period in history (fascism) and did not learn all too much. I am really scared actually where all this leads towards. You might also want to cite Lippmann as a predecessor of this thinking [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_(book)




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