Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity aka Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9780008466749 | 2023 | 10 hours and 11 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 276 MB
Author: Sander van der Linden
Narrator: Sander van der Linden
One of the world's top experts on fighting misinformation reveals the psychology behind its power - and how we can protect ourselves. From fake news to conspiracy theories, from pandemics to politics, misinformation may be the defining problem of our era. Like a virus, misinformation infects our minds - altering our beliefs and replicating at astonishing rates. Once the virus takes hold, our primary strategies of fact-checking and debunking are an insufficient cure. In Foolproof Sander van der Linden describes how to inoculate yourself and others against the spread of misinformation, discern fact from fiction and push back against methods of mass persuasion. Sander van der Linden takes us through the psychology of conspiratorial thinking and equips us with the eleven antigens needed to help stop the spread of misinformation once and for all.