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Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America Audiobook
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author and co-host of Pod Save America tells us how to combat political truth decay and baldfaced lies of the Right Wing propaganda machine.
In Battling the Big Lie, Dan Pfeiffer returns to lay out how the Right Wing built such a robust and successful disinformation machine, how they have used it to amass power despite representing a dwindling share of the country, and how readers can fight back against disinformation with step-by-step guides on spotting fake news, becoming their own fact checker, and talking to their conspiracy theory-obsessed relatives.
Over the last twenty years, the Right Wing has built a massive media apparatus that is weaponizing misinformation for political purposes. The Right Wing media ecosystem personified by Fox and fueled by Facebook is waging war on the very idea of objective truth—and it’s winning.
This misinformation campaign is at the root of much that is rotten in America and around the world. Trump is a product of this eco-system as is the immense polarization and division and our inability to deal rationally with immense threats like COVID and climate change.
Here, Pfeiffer lays bare the tactics used by the Right Wing propaganda machine and how to combat them, including:
QAnon and its proponents, from Facebook groups to members of congress
The optimization of Facebook as the ultimate carrier of Right Wing clickbait
Educating the Left to "fight fire with fire" and nurture progressive media
How to have hard conversations with the Fox News-watching, conspiracy theory-believing relative in your life
A functioning democracy depends on a shared understanding of reality. America is teetering on the edge because one of the two parties in our two-party system views truth, facts, and science as their opponent.
As Battling the Big Lie proves, time is running out to fix this problem. There are no easy answers or quick fixes, but something must be done.
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“Reviews the various ways they have eroded confidence in American governmental institutions, the press, and science—much to the detriment of society…Sprinkled throughout are irreverent footnotes, which provide humorous asides and ironic commentary.”
— Library Journal
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“Offers concrete solutions to one of the greatest challenges of our time—combatting disinformation and its corrosive impact on democracy…An empowering, modern blueprint for fighting back.”
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“A new playbook for Democratic messaging with a bite and a sting.”
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“Makes lucid and persuasive arguments. Progressives will relish this fiery call to arms.”
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“The author does detail, with bracing clarity, just how effective right-wing messaging has been compared to that of the left…and he offers advice for mainstream media in advance of upcoming elections.”
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“An enlightening, at times enraging, and always entertaining guide through the recent history of our politics and media, drawing on Dan Pfeiffer’s unparalleled experience.”
— Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor
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A New York Times bestseller
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A #1 Amazon bestseller
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About Dan Pfeiffer
Dan Pfeiffer is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Yes We (Still) Can and a cohost on Pod Save America. One of Barack Obama’s longest serving advisers, he was White House director of communications under President Obama from 2009 to 2013 and senior adviser to the president from 2013 to 2015.