The Lie Detectives - In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age

How can political campaigns fight back against disinformation?A decade after The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, which Politico called -Moneyball for politics,- journalist Sasha Issenberg returns to the cutting edge of political innovation to reveal how campaigns are navigating the era-s most pressing challenge: how to win in a world awash in lies. The Lie Detectives is a lively and deep secret history of Democratic politics in the Trump years. Our main character, Jiore Craig, is a young but battle-hardened veteran of the misinformation wars, and she leads a memorable cast including LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, whose emergence as one of the American left-s biggest donors has forced his adviser Dmitri Mehlhorn into the role of moral compass for a movement still wrestling with whether it should counter fake news by producing its own, and David Goldstein and Jehmu Greene, who are confronting -the Big Lie,- in the vernacular of online conspiracy theories, with gif