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What the Fact?
Finding the Truth in All the Noise
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Tracing the spread of misinformation and disinformation through our fast-moving media landscape, a journalist, scientist, medical professional, and professor gives readers the skills to identify and counter poorly sourced clickbait and misleading headlines.
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From acclaimed writer, journalist, and physician Dr. Seema Yasmin comes a “savvy, accessible, and critical” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) book about the importance of media literacy, fact-based reporting, and the ability to discern truth from lies.
What the Fact? poses critical questions: What is a fact? What are reliable sources? What is news? What is fake news? How can anyone make sense of it anymore? Well, we have to. As conspiracy theories and online hoaxes increasingly become a part of our national discourse and “truth” itself is being questioned, it has never been more vital to build the discernment necessary to tell fact from fiction, and media literacy has never been more important.
In this accessible guide, Dr. Seema Yasmin, an award-winning journalist, scientist, medical professional, and professor, traces the spread of misinformation and disinformation through our fast-moving media landscape. She teaches young readers the skills that will help them identify and counter poorly-sourced clickbait and misleading headlines.
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The book by Seema Yasmin is highly praised for its role in aiding both educators and teens in navigating complex media literacy challenges. It offers engaging tips and techniques, making it an essential resource in libraries and classrooms. Reviewers appreciate its informative approach, using metaphors of contagion and vaccines to explain media literacy barriers and solutions.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781665900041
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 10 October 2023
Country: United States
Imprint: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Edition: Reprint
Illustration: f-c cvr (spfx: spot gloss on matte); b-w int art
Audience: Teenage
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 268g
Pages: 368
About the Author
Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award–winning journalist who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, medical doctor, professor, and poet. She attended medical school at Cambridge University and worked as a disease detective for the US federal government’s Epidemic Intelligence Service. She currently teaches storytelling at Stanford University School of Medicine, and is a regular contributor to CNN, Self, and Scientific American, among others.
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