How can political campaigns fight back against disinformation?

The Lie Detectives is a lively and deep secret history of democratic politics in the Trump era, told through a cast of tacticians on the front lines of electioneering—including Jiore Craig, a digital operative who invented the job of counter-disinformation strategist for American campaigns, activist Matt Osborne, who was formerly a military cryptographer, and David Goldstein, founder of We Defend Truth—who have become the moral compass for a movement still wrestling with whether it should counter fake news by producing its own.

With The Lie Detectives, journalist Sasha Issenberg provides a vivid snapshot of an industry trying to come to terms with an exploding social media landscape, and using every weapon in their arsenal to counter the biggest problem they’ve ever faced.