Finding Facts

Hello there, curious people.

This article is a little different from the others as it’s not a typical article, rather it’s a curated list of resources (books, frameworks, studies, tools, videos & websites) folks may find useful.

Last update: 2025–12–28

Reviews of many of the items may follow in future posts.

Books

Business, Finance & Law

• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism — Naomi Klein

Fiction

• 1984 — George Orwell
• Animal Farm — George Orwell
• Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
• The Crucible — Arthur Miller
• The Kill Chain: This is the Digital Dark Age — G. J. Scobie

History

• Routledge Handbook of U.S. Counterterrorism and Irregular Warfare Operations — Michael A. Sheehan, Erich Marquardt, Liam Collins

Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences

• Active Measures — Thomas Rid
• Civil Disobedience — Henry David Thoreau
• Disinformation and You: Identify Propaganda and Manipulation (Treachery & Intrigue) — May 1, 2021 — Marie D. Jones
• Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity — Sander van der Linden
• How Spies Think: Ten Lessons in Intelligence — David Omand
• Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media — Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
• Mastering Critical Thinking Logic: A Comprehensive Guide to Enhancing Reasoning, Decision-Making, and Cognitive Clarity — Jeremy Goodwin
• Media Control — Noam Chomsky
• Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics — Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts
• Post-Truth — Lee McIntyre
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions — Dan Ariely
• Propaganda — Edward Bernays
• Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century — Daniel Treisman, Sergei Guriev
• Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now — Jaron Lanier
• The Art of Persuasion — Blaise Pascal
• The Critique of Pure Reason — Immanuel Kant
• The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread — Cailin O’Connor, James Owen Weatherall
• The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth — Samuel Woolley
• Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator — Ryan Holiday
• unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation — Brooks Jackson, Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Psychology

• Behavioral Science in the Wild (Behaviorally Informed Organizations) — May 15, 2022 — Nina Mažar, Dilip Soman
• A Gentle Introduction to Social Engineering Attack and Prevention (Learn how to do a social engineering attack using manipulation techniques so you can better protect yourself.) — Stephen Haunts
• The Truth About Lying: Everyday Techniques for Dealing with Deception — Stan Walters
• Thinking Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky
• Why Smart People Do Stupid Things — Frank Stass

Science, Nature & Maths

• Build a Mathematical Mind — Even If You Think You Can’t Have One: Become a Pattern Detective. Boost Your Critical and Logical Thinking Skills — Albert Rutherford
• How to Lie with Statistics — Darrell Huff
• The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think — Eli Pariser
• Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era — Daniel J. Levitin

Technology & Engineering

• Cyber Spy Chronicles Mastering Open Source Intelligence in a Digital World: OSINT — Bradley Deacon, Daktari Knight
• OSINT Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Intelligence Methods and Tools — Ambre Laurent
• Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room — David Weinberger
• Web of Deceit: Misinformation and Manipulation in the Age of Social Media — Annie Mintz

Frameworks

• Bayesian Inference
• UK RESIST 2
• US Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 203

Studies

• Misinformation: susceptibility, spread, and interventions to immunize the public — Sander van der Linden

Tools

• Privacy Tools
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
• Techlore

Videos

• How we can protect truth in the age of misinformation — Sinan Aral (YouTube)
• Psychological inoculation against misinformation — Sander van der Linden (YouTube)

Websites

Fact-Checking

• Fact Check
• Full Fact
• Media Bias Fact Check
• Politifact
• Snopes

Inoculation

• Get Bad News
• Go Viral Game
• Harmony Square
• Inoculation Science

News

• Ground News
• The News Literacy Project

Enjoy and feel free to recommend any that we haven’t listed yet.

Remember; It’s a jungle out there!