After the Fact? The Truth About Fake News - Marcus Gilroy-Ware Audiobook
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Why do we no longer trust facts, experts and statistics? In this essential guide to the turbulent times in which we live, Marcus Gilroy-Ware investigates our era of post-truths and fake news and answers the question of where we can go from here.
We are supposed to have more information at our disposal now than at any time in history. So why, in a world of rising sea levels, populist leaders, resurgent fascism and a global pandemic, do so many people believe bizarre and untrue things about the world we live in?
In After the Fact? , Marcus Gilroy-Ware shows us what really created the conditions for mis- and disinformation, from fake news and conspiracy theories, to bullshit journalism and the resurgence of the far-right, and why liberal newspaper columnists and centrist politicians are unable to turn back this tide.
Spanning politics, culture, psychology, journalism, and much more, After the Fact? is a timely wake-up call for those who believe we can simply go “back to normal”, and instead argues that, if we are to put an end to “fake news” we must deal with the broader social crises that are responsible for it.
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This post has 12 comments with rating of 4/5
September 20th, 2023
The synapsis lost me at the “and the resurgence of the far-right, and why liberal newspaper columnists and centrist politicians are unable to turn back this tide”. Thank God the liberal media NEVER publishes fake news. Cough, cough.
September 20th, 2023
Mainstream media is all fake news. They parrot the govt lies. (Operation Mockingbird lives)
September 20th, 2023
It used to be that ‘fake news’ was only what The Former Guy thought was unflattering to him. It wasn’t actually fake, but he didn’t like it so it became fake. His sycophants adopted the moniker and expanded it to anything that doesn’t conform to an ideology, despite the factual evidence in existence. In actuality, nearly everything TFG claimed was ‘fake news’ was factual news and entire careers were created just to refute all the lies told by TFG during four long years of incompetence. But Hunter’s laptop and Hillary’s emails! Three indictments on gun charges for one and zero indictments after years of investigations BY REPUBLICANS during two different Presidential administrations for the other. Meanwhile, 91 indictments in less than three years against a guy who regurgitated over 20,000 lies as a world leader and has publicly declared his inability to grasp reality. There’s nothing fake about that.
But one has to ask what is the end-goal of all the mis- and disinformation purposely generated for a population always connected. It’s easy to see when taken as a whole: there is no plan. It’s all short-sighted “gain”. Sure, you could say China and Russia (with their prolific cyber crimes) have a stake in destabilizing the West so they can bring about their own global order but that’s giving them too much credit for their ability to rule a global order (and they likely don’t realize they are too incompetent to do so…or China, anyway; the world is seeing in real-time Russian ineptness). Or it could be that the “right” politicians are elected so the “right” policies and laws are passed so the “right” kinds of thinking and people are no longer bothered by the “wrong” thinking and people. Again, short-sighted since those kinds of policies have to accompany widespread oppression (like history is full of examples) when this world is not the world of yesterday where these things are possible, again because of how connected everyone is. Autocratic places in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia (and even parts of Europe) are finding this out with their increasingly(-necessary) violent repression of dissent. The first thing they do is cut off people’s ability to connect, stopping communication and suppressing information. But there is a plan behind it, a well-worn plan that works. When anyone has the ability to spread whatever they want for their own plan, what happens when the next steps (repression and oppression…or revolution, for those tiny squishy minds that think it will go their way) fail?
Is it really the failing of a free society that everyone has the ‘right’ to believe what they want instead of being told what to believe? Like everything that has come before, history will be the ultimate judge.
September 20th, 2023
@Malachie520 - China and Russia don’t want to rule the world. The USA wants to rule the world. And it has been ruling the world through military and financial intimidation and via propaganda. China and Russia want a multi-polar world order.
September 20th, 2023
I don’t think even Columbia22 knows what they’re driveling on about but it’s fake news all the same.
September 20th, 2023
@abb9632 That’s cute. And what part of the USA do you hail from to believe in such fake news?
September 20th, 2023
I’m happy to give MGW a listen;- several of his previous opinion pieces have raised valid issues. (Spoiler: I’ve not been convinced by any of his suggested solutions yet).
But I’m not sure that ‘fake news’ is anything so very new. Didn’t we have almost a thousand years of faith-based politics (we usually call it The Dark Ages)?
September 20th, 2023
Ah, Tankies.
September 21st, 2023
Looks like FakeBookReview bot is back. Lucky us.
September 21st, 2023
“we have almost a thousand years of faith-based politics (we usually call it The Dark Ages)?” - Oy, the head-injury historian is back. With that grasp of “facts” you ought to feature in the book as a cautionary case study. Combined with your defence of the Brutish Empire. “resurgent fascism” indeed…
Good stuff, hdgdf.
September 21st, 2023
@abb9632 “China and Russia don’t want to rule the world.”
Hilarious. Both have invaded and annexed several other nations since 1945. Russia is engaged in exactly that right now, China asserts it will invade Taiwan in the near future.
Maybe not the whole world at once, but China is expanding its influence and military in the Pacific, Asia, Africa.
October 29th, 2023
Gweilo: Ukrainian ‘war’ has been going on since 2014 (if you don’t know WTF do I mean, well mate, you missed the previous 2 or 3 episodes of the ‘Ukrainian War’ Series.
Which countries has China invaded? How many military coups have they sponsored?
” China asserts it will invade Taiwan in the near future” as the USA asserted in the past that they were going to go after Iran? Syria? Lybia? Iraq? Afghanistan? Russia? China?
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