Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
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Average rating3.8
3.5.
It was great, and really took the lid off of how/why social and digital media generally operates. How the blogs we get are a product of the medium, a medium which prioritises page-views over anything else.
Got a bit repetitive toward the end, and I found myself saying ‘Yada yada yada' a lot whilst I skimmed (lots of repetition - we get it, blogs are dogs). But really important. ESP. The quick summary in the chapter ‘how to read a blog'
‘You can't have your news instantly and for it to be high quality and truthful' (or something along those lines)
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I was afraid that this book might denounce a huge inexistent conspiracy theory but it didn't. Instead, the author manages to demonstrate step by step how the blogosphere can be hacked and what's the result of so much hacking. A very informative book that might get read a second time !
Absolute must read! Media system right now is completely broken and this book shows how on real examples. Terrifying. I don't even know what else to write - YOU MUST READ THIS!