To Dig Up Valuable Information, Read 'Fake News'

”Fake News, Propaganda and Plain Old Lies” by Donald A. Barclay will show you how to identify deceptive information as well as how to access the most useful information in order to make right decision in your personal, academic, professional, and civic lives.

Barclay offers basic methods for evaluating information such as determining whether the source for a news story is identified and whether a so called expert has the relevant credentials to provide an informed opinion.

The work is targeting anyone who cares about the trustworthiness of information they encounter; its scope will make it most useful as part of college coursework .

The book shifts to more advanced topics ”statistical models, scholarly information” that will be less useful to lay readers.

Barclay is a career librarian who has spent decades teaching university students to become information literate scholar; he takes an objective non-partisan approach to the complex and nuanced topic of sorting deceptive information from accurate information.