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Also by Robert Mahoney:

The Infodemic, May 2022
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The Infodemic, May 2022
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The Infodemic
Robert Mahoney, Joel Simon

How Censorship and Lies Made the World Sicker and Less Free

Columbia Univ Pr
May 2022
On Sale: April 26, 2022
192 pages
ISBN: 1735913685
EAN: 9781735913681
Kindle: B09H4QC21T
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Non-Fiction Political

As COVID-19 spread around the world, so did government censorship. The Infodemic lays bare not just old-fashioned censorship, but also the mechanisms of a modern brand of “censorship through noise,” which moves beyond traditional means of state control—such as the jailing of critics and restricting the flow of information—to open the floodgates of misinformation, overwhelming the public with lies and half-truths.

Joel Simon and Robert Mahoney, who have traveled the world for many years defending press freedom and journalists’ rights as the directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists, chart the onslaught of COVID censorship beginning in China, through Iran, Russia, India, Egypt, Brazil, and inside the Trump White House. Increased surveillance in the name of public health, the collapse of public trust in institutions, and the demise of local news reporting all contributed to help governments hijack the flow of information and usurp power. Full of vivid characters and behind the scenes accounts, The Infodemic shows how under the cover of a global pandemic, governments have undermined freedom and taken control—this new political order may be the legacy of the disease.

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