Thanks to the publishers for sharing this book. Unfortunately the formatting made it a bit hard to read on my device- the text came up as separate from the pictures, so flicking back and forth to read the text and look at the illustrations made for a bit of a disjointed reading experience. However, I thought this book was a great idea, and well executed as far as I could tell.

I excited to read "Won't Get Fooled Again." However, the book did not live up to my expectations. The book came off as preachy and unrelatable to the people it should be targeting: people who don't know how to determine whether the information they read online is credible. The book depicts these people as naive or stupid. As someone aware of fake news, I didn't learn much from the book. I was hoping to get more history or analysis of the phenomenon along with the examples.

Really conflicted here.
I love the message but I do not like the rest.

Explaining all the issues of Fake News and what it involves, Media, Politics, how we get fooled, how media get fooled etc. This is a very strong point.
My favourite was IV Part which focused on the history of fake news, I just wish it was a bit more detailed.

However, I have to say that I disliked the art and I found the text hard to read. Plus, I did not entirely like the tone of the book. It is shelved as "nonfiction (Adult)" but I totally disagree. The way things were said and explained, I thought for a moment that it was targeted at a younger audience. It was just irritating.

Overall, I would probably rate this somewhere between 2,5 and 3 stars.

There are, of course, other books out there that explore the "fake news" phenomenon and explain how to check a story's viability. Steuter takes this idea a step further. In a series of scenarios we see how "fake news" gets perpetuated, how to check for truth, and verifying our own sources of research, being certain to warn about spoofed websites. She warns us against marking every "weird" story as false and preventing our own biases from coloring our research. Even more than that, she shows us how fake news harms the general perception of truth in news and even of truth in general. While the artwork is a bit rough and noisy, the information is invaluable making this well worth the read.

This book discusses and demonstrates how Fake News invades our daily lives, and how to fight it. It presents many concepts of information literacy and critical thinking in an engaging and inclusive manner. Groups of people (mostly families) encounter and discuss Fake News in their daily life - family dinners, trivia nights, kaffeeklatsches, chatting with co-workers, and shopping. Each chapter will present an idea and then re-frame it through the different discussions. The repetition can be a bit much, so i suggest looking at individual chapters instead of reading it all in one go.

I definitely want to include it in my info lit workshops.

Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC of this book to read and review.

I found that graphic novels tend to make difficult subjects easier to follow and I think this book makes a great case for that. Fake news is definitely something the people of 2020 are dealing with heavily. While I did find the comics a bit "on the nose," overall this is a good guide to understand how quickly misinformation can spread in our current digital climate. A great read and a well thought out blunt message.

Thank you to the publisher for providing a copy of this graphic novel for review.

I think this particular book would be great for discussions in a school context. It covers important topics and the reasons we should always question what we read and are told - real vs fake news, why news might be fake or only partially true and who benefits.

While the busy black and white pallet lends well to a News theme, in the end the pages were so busy with images, shading and text that I found it hard to concentrate due to eye strain.

While the majority of this book was not new information to me, it's always a great topic to reinforce and I enjoyed learning a new phrase, ‘Cut Bono” (who benefits), I’ve never heard it before and it is a great succinct way of discussing the truth of news.

I was surprised to see a list of sources at the back linking to academic texts and feel this would have benefited from having a forward with some discussion prior to the graphic portion of the book.

I really wanted to love and learn from this book. And it was fine, but not the great experience I was hoping for. It's hard to tackle a topic this complex in a interesting, concise way (because "Falsehood flies and truth comes limping after it."). The book did do a great job highlighting the many, many ways fake news is created and propagated (and why) and how politicians use the info and even the term falsely to discredit their detractors. And very impressively, the book is impeccably sourced and end noted.

That said, I found the art style a bit too sketchy/impressionistic and distracting from the truth and the short vignettes were a bit too pat and easy (discussions about fake news aren't often calm in my experience). And worse and depressingly, the solutions were somewhat impractical (I for one don't have time to research every claim about everything independently), uncool (put on a play about fake news?), or contradictory (check sources in the mainstream media but don't trust corporate-funded mainstream media?). Although maybe I'm the one at fault for wanting an easy solution and not wanting to put the extensive time needed to do participatory, grassroots, honest, activist, coalition-building democracy the right way.

In the end this was a good overview of a pernicious problem that, unfortunately, has no easy answers.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the chance to read this advance copy.

This graphic novel is a really good overview of the different ways fake news has permeated our society, including actual fake news and also certain politicians crying "fake news" whenever something is said against them. I think this could be a good overview for teens to read.

I felt like I got fooled by this book. Did I download the wrong book? The art style reminds me of the 1940s/50s. Wished it had been in color. And the format was not easy to read on my iPad. It cut off a lot of the panels.

This is a good, basic introduction of the proliferation of fake news, the motivations of its creators and those who share it, the challenges many people face in identifying it, and the role of journalism in both its spread and the fight against it. Some of the scenarios play out as more realistic than others, but by the end of the book, standing up for truth when you hear someone repeating fake news does start to feel normalized, which is very important (and difficult). I could have done without the mouseland scenes and the anthropomorphized dog thinking quotes from philosophers--sticking to the straight facts about fake news would have been a better choice for this book, in my opinion.

It took me a little while to get in the rhythm of the scenarios and who the characters were, but I appreciated that the author and illustrator chose to use this method to be able to delve into different facets of fake news. Journalists at a newspaper, a family of multiple generations getting together, an immediate family with kids learning about fake news at school, a group of college students...all have different experiences of and with fake news, and seeing those perspectives is helpful.

Given that this is really a primer, I would have liked to see the takeaways really pulled out to be actionable and memorable. Some editorial voice would have been helpful, but on the whole this is a good introduction not just to the topic but to ways to combat it. Thanks to the publisher for a NetGalley.

This was a very fun and interesting read. I loved how it was formatted to be a graphic novel rather than just a typical novel. I think this made the book and information more enjoyable!

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Thank you to NetGalley for the arc copy of this book!
I thought this graphic guide was very informative and thoroughly researched.
As a mass communication major this book was very helpful in retaining my knowledge from some of the classes I have taken this semester!
However I did have some issues with this book.
My first and main issue was the art style. I found it to be very lackluster and disengaging similar to what you would see in the comics section of the newspaper. While this won’t bothersome, it personally bothered me as a graphic novel reader. My other issue is with the formatting of this book in my digital copy. If you were to read this physically I don’t think you would have any issues reading it but my ebook copy was very hard to read with graphics being split across multiple pages.
Overall I think this would be great when used in an educational context but for enjoyment purposes, it wasn’t something I personally enjoyed

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." Mark Twain in "The wit and wisdom".

Powerful men always tried to manipulate information and medias to serve their own interests. But beware, believing what "everyone says" have the potential for hazardous and very concrete consequences.
The different chapters present all the different ways false informations can spread and point out the misinformation problematics very well (ex: mainstream news can get Fooled too! = it's hard to know who to believe, etc)
It's Intelligent, exhaustive, informed and informative. Also solutions are given all along the book to double check informations and sources by yourself, and that book wouldn't have been really complete without that.
Long story short, a very useful book that everyone should read, for everyone's benefit and a better world, even.

Thanks a lot to NetGalley and Between the Lines Editions for this advanced copy. You did an amazing job here and in the public interest.

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

This collection has a very interesting premise, so I was excited to read. I don't think anyone goes a whole day - a whole hour - without being impacted by fake news. This collection showed dozens of examples and scenarios of people falling for fake news, being unable to identify real from fake news stories, and just being plain ignorant.

But I did find myself asking: who is the audience? Are we targeting millennials, boomers, students, who? I felt the book was unfocused in this sense, where I couldn't pinpoint who was supposed to be reading and why.

Along that same vein, I felt that the comics were too "on the nose." I would read the comic and love the undertones of ignorance and sometimes straight-up stupidity...then that buzz would be ruined. Some characters would flat-out say the point of the comic and what we, the reader, is supposed to gather from it.nThis is how it's brought back to my point about audience: who are you trying to reach if you aren't asking your reader to think? Isn't that the point of this collection, to think and analyze what is happening around us? The collections would have been so much more powerful if left as satire.

My hard feelings about having my hand held during every comic was accentuated by the fact that many comics were similar, almost identical. In each section of the collection I picked out maybe 2 or 3 unique comics and the rest were redundant. The collection seemed 100 pages longer than it should have been.

My final thoughts: I think this is a punchy collection of hard truths. Maybe you could learn something from it, maybe you could chuckle at some (almost) satirical comics. Even though you may not want to sit and read the entire collection, flipping through and reading a few would definitely be worth your time.

"You know, unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."

A fascinating look at fake news and what to do in order to not get fooled by it. I really liked the graphic approach because it make it fun to read.

Not sure if this is going to persuade any of the people out there that believe every story that they see sent to them by their great-aunt's best friend's cousin, but at least it is out there to show how fake news spreads, and how the truth gets buried.

Very appropriate for these uncertain times where even the government, who you would think would at least tell some semblance of truth, spreads falsehoods.

Told in graphic novel style, with different groups of people discussing and learning how to spot fake news, this books covers all sorts of ways that false and distorted stories get circulated and believed.

There are also lessons in how to spot fake news, and how to do due diligence.

Sounds like a lot of work for most people, but it good to have the information there, along with examples.

And the main take away is if it sounds too far fetched to be true, it usually is not.

And look, I didn't make any comments, until this sentence, about the worse spreader, who is currently, as of this writing, occupying the White House.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

This black and white comic shows slightly unlikely circumstances where people see, talk about, or click on fake news – and of course how politicians nowadays call something that seems even remotely critical of them 'fake news'. I didn't expect it to take this style – I'd thought there would be some authorial voice, some narrator or other guiding character to see us all through the topic, and statistics and graphs all over the place. But none of that appeared – we just get scenario after scenario. Authority here comes then from characters that are running tests and research into the concept, a kind of game show based on identifying fake news, and some very savvy kids teaching their racist elders what's what. We're told, however, the young and those not educated to degree level are the worst at telling whether things have veracity or not – although we're also told the older generations share from fake news sites the most. The book has someone vocally berate the current president – if not mention him by name, and a lot of angst about criticism of Islam and immigrants.

Towards the end we've seen several characters return, such as a punk journalist struggling to combat but also telling us about fake news, and some old timers at a coffee shop, whose wait staff give us punchy chapter closers. Similar to that is a dog who quotes classical authors to us, and a selection of posters in the newspaper offices. All told there's a high rate of information, opinion and fact on these pages, and it's all highly, highly important. So while this isn't exactly high on entertainment values, it's been more than competently put together, and rates strongly for the values it so clearly conveys. Not sure we needed the talking mice, though.

The content of this book is absolutely excellent. It's written carefully and well=researched and absolutely timely. I learned quite a bit myself.

My only gripe with this is the artwork style. It's a loose sketchy look that almost gives the book an '80s vibe.

I thought I was pretty clued-up on fake news, but I did learn a lot from this. It could have been better organised, and a lot of the pieces seemed to tread the same ground, but there's still some useful stuff here. The graphic format opens it up to a wider audience too.