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Index
Front Cover
Half-Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Chapter One: A Short History of Fake Democracy in Three Parts
Part I: The Post-War Consensus
Part II: Greed is Good
Part III: OK Boomer
The Price of Fake Democracy
Chapter Two: The Disinformation Society
When Ideas Rule, from Karl Marx to Charles Koch (and back)
Literacy and the Lack Thereof
Emotion, Attachment, Sociality, Knowledge
The Mythology of “Elites”
Chapter Three: Wake Up Sheeple! This Is All a Conspiracy!
We’re onto You: The Prevalence of Actual Conspiracies
The Toxic Effects of Alienation and Suspicion
Emotion, Culture and Knowledge Synthesis
Investigation, Theory, Identity, Belonging
Chapter Four: When Liberals Aren’t Actually That Liberal: The Politics of Shallow Understanding
Order Over Justice
Ideological Drift and the Drifting Status Quo
Rainbow Capitalism
What’s in a Name?
Chapter Five: Trouble in the Newsroom
The Problem with Objectivity
Helping to Destroy Democracy
Everything is “Just a Debate”
Journalism and the Far-Right
Journalism as “Content”
Chapter Six: Digital Distortions
Actual “Fake News”
Filter Bubbles and Echo Chambers
Internet Reductivism
Follow the Money: A Tension in Attention
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
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