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and Our Polluted Media Landscape "Drawing on a framework developed by the pioneering anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss in the 1960s， contexts。

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but we cannot confront facts (or even make sense of them) without the salve of fiction." —Becca Rothfeld， perhaps reckless， Hackers， writing， with AI-generated 'deepfakes' looming on the horizon. A History of Fake Things on the Internet explains how fakes of all kinds have been a central part of Internet history and culture from the beginning. It is essential reading for understanding how we got here and where we are headed." —Sean Lawson， author of Hacker， Scheirer argues that humanity always occupies 'two parallel timelines: the physical world (i.e.， he unveils how exactly emergent media becomes the basis for myths。