Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

3.5.

It was great, and really took the lid off of how/why social and digital media generally operates. How the blogs we get are a product of the medium, a medium which prioritises page-views over anything else.

Got a bit repetitive toward the end, and I found myself saying ‘Yada yada yada' a lot whilst I skimmed (lots of repetition - we get it, blogs are dogs). But really important. ESP. The quick summary in the chapter ‘how to read a blog'

‘You can't have your news instantly and for it to be high quality and truthful' (or something along those lines)

Yahoo

Absolute must read! Media system right now is completely broken and this book shows how on real examples. Terrifying. I don't even know what else to write - YOU MUST READ THIS!

Even though I rated “only” 4 stars, this is one of the must read books. The book itself isn't that great as the topic is important. After reading this you won't be able to look at another scandal across all the WWW the same. Ins and outs of how scandals are crated, why and how there is basically no protection against it. Book tries to be optimistic on a note of “knowledge might help” but this book has been published in 2012, that was before fake news epidemic. I think humanity is doomed because we love scandals way too much.

I was afraid that this book might denounce a huge inexistent conspiracy theory but it didn't. Instead, the author manages to demonstrate step by step how the blogosphere can be hacked and what's the result of so much hacking. A very informative book that might get read a second time !

Absolutely terrifying account of how easily the online media is manipulated. It's worth a read, but it will change you.