Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction 

1 The Fourth Estate: Democracy and the Press
2 The Faux Estate: A Brief History of Fake News in America
3 Satirical News and Political Party Propaganda Apparatuses
4 The Roots of State-Sponsored Propaganda
5 Fake News and the Internet Economy
6 Fighting Fake News: Solutions and Discontent 
7 The Fake News Detection Kit: The Ten-Point Process to Save Our Democracy 

Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Nolan Higdon is a lecturer in media studies and history at California State University, East Bay. Higdon sits on the boards of the Action Coalition for Media Education and Northwest Alliance for Alternative Media and Education. He also cohosts the Along the Line podcast.

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