… Sometimes the people giving you the facts are hoping you’ll draw the wrong conclusion; sometimes they don’t know the difference themselves. Today, information is available nearly instantaneously, but it is becoming increasingly hard to tell what’s true and what’s not, to sift through the various claims we hear and to recognise when they contain misinformation, pseudo-facts, distortions, and outright lies.

(LEVITIN, 2016.)

O livro A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age de Daniel J. Levitin discorre sobre a necessidade cada vez maior de aprender a questionar e avaliar se uma informação é plausível e seus argumentos se sustentam em face aos fatos conhecidos.

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