Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

by Ryan Holiday

This is what opponents of the alt-right seem to miss. They are trying to make you upset. They want you to be irrationally angry—it’s how they win.

All discussions on the internet seem to be driven by irrational fears or irrational expectations. Instead of the internet making factual information easier to find, it has made it just easier to flood our heads with opinions and trash. This book helps show how you can’t trust anything out there. Finding facts is harder. There are no authoritative sources. The “do your own research” crowd only searches hundreds of copy past blogs and “news outlets” that are regurgitating the planted stories. Volume does not make truth. Sure hope schools are changing how to teach critical thinking to students so that they can help get us out of this mess.