Everyone is susceptible to fake news. There are polarising narratives in society, conspiracy theories are rife, and accuracy is often lost in favour of sensationalist headlines. Here Dr Sander van der Linden takes us through the common traits of conspiratorial thinking and describes how to inoculate oneself against the spread of misinformation and push back against methods of mass persuasion.
Winner of British Psychological Society Best Book Prize (Popular Science) 2023
Nature's Top 10 Books of 2023
A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023
A Waterstones Book of the Year for Politics 2023