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Author Sorgatz, Rex, author.

Title The encyclopedia of misinformation : a compendium of imitations, spoofs, delusions, simulations, counterfeits, impostors, illusions, confabulations, skullduggery, frauds, pseudoscience, propaganda, hoaxes, flimflam, pranks, hornswoggle, conspiracies & miscellaneous fakery / Rex Sorgatz ; Lorenzo Petrantoni, illustrator.

Publication Info. New York : Abrams, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations
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Summary Slingshotting through conspiracy theories, internet and popular culture, and perplexing psychological phenomena, this compendium illuminates deliriously diverse subjects: Artificial Intelligence, Auto-Tune, Chilean Sea Bass, Claques, Clickbait, Cognitive Dissonance, Cryptids, Dark Matter, False Flag Operations, Gaslighting, Gerrymandering, Kayfabe, Laugh Tracks, Milli Vanilli, Phantom Time Hypothesis, Photoshopping, Potemkin Villages, Rachel Dolezal, Strategery, Truthiness, and the Uncanny Valley. Encyclopedic in scope, but with an incisive voice tuned to these bedeviling times, this is the modern reference book to engage a world rife with artifice and deception.
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Subject Common fallacies.
Common fallacies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Petrantoni, Lorenzo, 1970- illustrator.
Other Form: Print version: Sorgatz, Rex. Encyclopedia of Misinformation : A Compendium of Imitations, Spoofs, Delusions, Simulations, Counterfeits, Impostors, Illusions, Confabulations, Skullduggery, Frauds, Pseudoscience, Propaganda, Hoaxes, Flimflam, Pranks, Hornswoggle, Conspiracies & Miscellaneous Fakery. Cork : Abrams, ©2018 9781419729119
ISBN 9781683352341 (electronic book)
1683352343 (electronic book)
9781419729119
141972911X
Standard No. 9781419729119
Music No. MWT12079021