Lies, Incorporated. The World of Post-Truth Politics

In today's post-truth political landscape, there is a carefully concealed but ever-growing industry of organized misinformation, paid to create and disseminate lies in the service of political agendas. Ari Rabin-Havt presents a revelatory history of this industry of public deception, which he dubs Lies, Incorporated, and uncovers the ideological groups that have shaped American politics via coordinated assaults on the truth. For more than sixty years, these organizations have successfully obscured the facts, manufactured controversies, and, ultimately, crippled legislative progress on issues including tobacco regulation, public health care, climate change, gun control, immigration, abortion, and same-sex marriage. In an age when deep-pocketed individuals and corporations have the ear of major media outlets—and those media outlets can directly influence policy. Lies, Incorporatedis essential reading.