References
First things first. We're not talking about an "absolute" truth. There is no "absolute" truth. That's the stuff of cults, authoritarians, and dictators. This is about provable, knowable truth. You can find it when you do a little bit of digging for facts. The purpose of this site is to aid in recognizing and debunking disinformation through media literacy.
Anne Applebaum,
History Will Judge the Complicit
American Psychological Association, Psychologists Taking Aim at Misinformation
American Psychological Association,
The Role of Psychological Warfare In The Battle for Ukraine
Center for Countering Digital Hate,
The Disinformation Dozen
Get Bad News Site,
Discover Influence and Disinformation
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Adam Curtis, The Power of Nightmares:
The Rise of the Politics of Fear
Davidson College, Simple Corrections
Can Slow the Spread of Misinformation Online
Sam Keen, Faces of the Enemy:
Reflections of the Hostile Imagination
Lee McIntyre, On Disinformation
Lee McIntyre, C-SPAN Interview
National Library of Medicine, Fake News on Social Media and It’s Influence on Health
David Pepper, Laboratories of Autocracy:
A Wake-Up Call From Behind the Lines
Martin Siefkes, Power In Society, Economy, and Mentality: Towards a Semiotic Theory of Power
Timothy Snyder, The American Abyss
Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Disinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity
On Foolproof: Why Disinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity
Sander van der Linden Interview
Washington Post, Much of the GOP is
On-Board With the Taylor Swift Conspiracy Theories