The book “Weaponized Lies” was written by Daniel Joseph Levitin the author of “A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age” book, cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, writer. The main idea is how people using information against everyone and how to think critically to avoid “fake news” around us.

In 2016 the Oxfords Dictionary’s Word of the year was post-truth, which means “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”. But it doesn’t means that idea of truth doesn’t exist anymore. One accident example was the lie of Washington, DC, pizza shop Comet Ping Pong was running a sex slave operation led by Hillary Clinton led Edgar M. …show more content…
News titled this lie as “fringe theory”. It’s not just a simple theory, it’s an idea based on a careful evaluation of evidence. There are two sides of the story exist when evidence exists on both sides of a position. The majority of people may disagree about how this was happening. They are based on their opinions, but not entitled to their own facts. U.S. Department of Education found that more than one in five adult Americans can’t to locate information in text. Facebook is making a good effort be made easier 1.8 billion members to report “fake news”. The story about “pizzeria accident” was made up by young people in Veles, who pushing stories based on lies and it gives him a significant payment from penny-per-click advertising platforms such as Facebook. Giving the media freedom will lead to a large number of consequences. Journalists corrupt by large companies that’s way freedom of media prohibited. The best defense from fake news is critical thinking. Our brains are great storytelling and confabulation machines: we can generate whatever truth we want. And that’s the difference between thinking critically and creative thinking. Critical