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    • What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why
    • By: Michael Shermer, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Michael Shermer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, entertaining stories in movies, books, and television. And there is no shortage of subjects: from who really killed JFK to the truth behind 9/11...

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    • Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
    • By: Matt Taibbi
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Part tirade, part confessional from the celebrated Rolling Stone journalist, Hate Inc. reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business....

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    • How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America
    • By: David Pakman
    • Narrated by: David Pakman
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 25-03-2025
    • Language: English
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    • Popular radio and podcast host David Pakman examines how right-wing extremism has led to the fall of critical thinking and rise of reactionary politics—and what we can do about it to save our democracy.

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    • The Inside Story of How Media Moguls Abused Their Power, Manipulated the Truth and Distorted Democracy
    • By: Eric Beecher
    • Narrated by: Eric Beecher
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 30-07-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Crikey owner and ex-News Corp and Fairfax editor lifts the lid on the abuse of power by media moguls—from William Randolph Hearst to Elon Musk—and on his own unique experience of working for (and being sued by) the Murdochs.

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    • The Weaponization of Social Media
    • By: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet....

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    • The Truth About AI from the People Building It
    • By: Martin Ford
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? Find out....

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    • The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
    • By: Martin Jacques
    • Narrated by: Scott Peterson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-2009
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027....

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    • The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
    • By: Samantha Barbas
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out stars' sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality....

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    • The New World of Manipulation and How to Resist It
    • By: Laura Dodsworth, Patrick Fagan
    • Narrated by: Henry Nott
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 20-07-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind....

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    • Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
    • By: Jonathan Haidt
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 23-07-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 558 ratings
    • In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding....

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    • Democracy in the Age of Social Media (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics)
    • By: Jason Hannan
    • Narrated by: Ray Greenley
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, television had recreated public discourse in its image and converted democracy into show business. Jason Hannan builds on this thesis....

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    • Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing
    • By: Emily Lynn Paulson
    • Narrated by: Emily Lynn Paulson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 30-05-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and the promise of a successful business of her own. Instead, she ended up with an addiction, broken friendships, and the rubble of a toppled pyramid . . . scheme....

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    • Education as the Practice of Freedom
    • By: bell hooks
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In Teaching to Transgress, Bell Hooks - writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual - writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to....

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    • The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
    • By: Max Fisher
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The Chaos Machine is the story of how the world was driven mad by social media....

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    • How Algorithms Make Everything the Same
    • By: Kyle Chayka
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 23-01-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself....

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    • What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
    • By: Dan Ariely
    • Narrated by: Simon Jones
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 19-09-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Social scientist Dan Ariely explores the behaviour of 'misbelief' that leads people to distrust accepted truths and embrace conspiracy theories....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Katharine Graham
    • Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
    • Length: 30 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In this widely acclaimed memoir ("Riveting, moving...a wonderful book" The New York Times Book Review), Katharine Graham tells her story—one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and for the courage, candor, and dignity of its telling....

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    • From Pong to Pokemon and Beyond . . . The Story Behind the Craze That Touched Our Lives and Changed the World
    • By: Steven L. Kent
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Series: The Ultimate History of Video Games, Book 1
    • Length: 23 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 13-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • With all the whiz, bang, pop, and shimmer of a glowing arcade, volume 1 of The Ultimate History of Video Games reveals everything you ever wanted to know and more about the unforgettable games that changed the world, the visionaries who made them, and the fanatics who played them...

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    • How Corporate and Government Groups Create and Maintain a Monopoly on Truth
    • By: Jason Bisnoff
    • Narrated by: Brian Sutherland
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 21-05-2019
    • Language: English
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    • In today’s chaotic world, where the multiplication of information sources creates competing narratives, credibility is the key to winning the war of ideas. This is the reason why governments and corporations resort to astroturfing....

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