Battling the big lie: how Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA media are destroying America
Introduction -- I: What happened. Canaries in the international coal mines ; From Russia with love ; How Trump almost stole the 2020 election ; A short history on the war on truth ; Why Republicans need to lie to win ; The anatomy of MAGA megaphone ; The best disinformation money can buy ; Roger Ailes and the evil genius of faux journalism -- II: How it happened. Disinformation and the destruction of local news ; Facebook: too big to succeed ; Poking holes in Facebook's defenses ; The media's conservative bias ; Debunking the dumbest myth: why MSNBC is not "liberal Fox" ; Message versus megaphone: the real reason Dems suck at messaging -- III: What we do about it. The high stakes of the battle against the big lie ; Get on a war footing and win hearts and minds ; A modern model of journalism ; Preaching to the progressive choir ; Starve the trolls: how liberals can stop being owned online ; Build and army of keyboard warriors ; Signs of hope.