Phillips:Truth

This is a book about truth and all the ingenious ways, throughout history, that we've managed to avoid it. We live in a 'post-truth' age, we're told. The US has a president who openly lies on a daily basis or who doesn't even know what's true and doesn't care. The internet has turned our everyday lives into a misinformation battleground. People don't trust experts anymore.

But was there ever really a golden age of truth-telling? As the editor of the UK's leading independent fact-checker, Tom Phillips deals with complete nonsense every day. Here, he tells the story of how we humans have spent history lying to each other and ourselves, and asks an important question: how can humanity move towards a truthier future?.