Fake History - BokDraken

På English

Publicerades 26 oktober 2022 av Ebury Publishing.

ISBN:: 978-0-7535-5967-3

Fake news about the past is fake history.

Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms? Did medieval people think the world was flat? Did Napoleon shoot the nose off the Sphinx? Spoiler Alert The answer to all those questions is no.

From the famous quote 'Let them eat cake' - mistakenly attributed to Marie Antoinette - to the apocryphal horns that adorned Viking helmets, fake history continues to shape the story we tell about who we are and how we got here. With doctored photographs, AI-generated images and false claims about the past circulating in the news and on social media, separating fact from fiction seems harder than ever before.

Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse, better known as The Fake History Hunter, is on a one-woman mission to hunt down fake history and reclaim the truth for the rest of us.

In this fascinating and illuminating book, Teeuwisse …

Fake news about the past is fake history.

Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms? Did medieval people think the world was flat? Did Napoleon shoot the nose off the Sphinx? Spoiler Alert The answer to all those questions is no.

From the famous quote 'Let them eat cake' - mistakenly attributed to Marie Antoinette - to the apocryphal horns that adorned Viking helmets, fake history continues to shape the story we tell about who we are and how we got here. With doctored photographs, AI-generated images and false claims about the past circulating in the news and on social media, separating fact from fiction seems harder than ever before.

Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse, better known as The Fake History Hunter, is on a one-woman mission to hunt down fake history and reclaim the truth for the rest of us.

In this fascinating and illuminating book, Teeuwisse debunks 101 myths so you can correct your friends and family, and arm yourself with the tools to spot and debunk fake history wherever you encounter it.

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Björn recenserade Fake History av Joeri Teeuwisse

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Yeah, this is essentially an extended series of Twitter posts. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I follow Teeuwisse on [current non-Twitter platform] and enjoy her posts quite a lot. But as a book, it's a mixed bag of very specific and very general claims, some of which truly are things that "everybody knows" (and therefore can probably be dismissed just for that claim alone) and others make you go "But why would you even choose to amplify this nonsense?" Besides wanting to get to 101, I mean. And besides (justifiably) yelling at people who think "medieval" covers everything from Alexander the Great to WW1.

Like many layman history books, it's at its most interesting when it takes the initial claim as a jumping-off point to put a claim about history, and by extension the people making the claim today, in a context. When the story isn't just "OK, …

Yeah, this is essentially an extended series of Twitter posts. Not that there's anything wrong with that, I follow Teeuwisse on [current non-Twitter platform] and enjoy her posts quite a lot. But as a book, it's a mixed bag of very specific and very general claims, some of which truly are things that "everybody knows" (and therefore can probably be dismissed just for that claim alone) and others make you go "But why would you even choose to amplify this nonsense?" Besides wanting to get to 101, I mean. And besides (justifiably) yelling at people who think "medieval" covers everything from Alexander the Great to WW1.

Like many layman history books, it's at its most interesting when it takes the initial claim as a jumping-off point to put a claim about history, and by extension the people making the claim today, in a context. When the story isn't just "OK, this was photoshopped by a bored college student in 2011" but "This thing kinda happened but it's more complicated and more interesting when you look at the whole story!"

A good book to keep around for reference and fact-checking examples. Or just follow her on [current non-Twitter platform].