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On Rumours: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done Book

Explores the human propensity for gossip and storytelling, and discusses how our fears and hopes can work against common sense. This book also investigates the way that the internet can entrench our false beliefs even deeper, and how the wish to conform, our natural biases and even our basic emotions can cause us to fall for untrue accounts.Read More

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  • Foyles

    Sunstein explores the human propensity for gossip and storytelling, and discusses how our fears and hopes can work against common sense. He also investigates the way that the internet can entrench our false beliefs even deeper, and how the wish to conform, our natural biases and even our basic emotions can cause us to fall for untrue accounts.

  • Penguin

    Rumours are as old as human history, but with the rise of the internet it's now possible to spread stories about anyone, anywhere, instantly. In the 2008 US election many Americans believed Barack Obama was a Muslim. The conspiracy theory book 9/11: The Big Lie has become a bestseller.

  • 0141044292
  • 9780141044293
  • Cass R Sunstein
  • 30 September 2010
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 112
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