As a fifth grade teacher, I see students frequently accepting all information at face value, and struggling to know how to identify facts and misinformation. This book addresses this in a very comprehensive yet engaging manner.

I appreciated the depth that the book had, and that it was written with the assumption that children are intelligent, capable and rationale people. I especially appreciated the discussions on research, identifying misinformation, what quality research looks like, and emotional responses to misinformation. I could see myself using it in my classroom throughout the year, focusing on a chapter for a couple of weeks at a time.

Such an important book. I highly recommend for upper elementary and middle school students.

Thank you Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book. These opinion are completely my own.

Great book to help children understand and maybe change the way to see outside information. With TikTok and other social media constantly spewing false information, children need all the tools they can get to sort through everything that is being thrown at them.

I think this book has the potential to be a great introduction to misinformation for younger readers. One drawback, is that it is very text-heavy and I can see readers becoming bored or exhausted. The last chapter tries to answer what can one do to combat misinformation. The suggestions are fairly basic. I think incorporating a more concrete strategy like Mike Caulfield's SIFT method can provide young readers with an example on how to evaluate for misinformation on their own. This article also goes further and talks about a contextual approach to evaluating information that could be referenced in a book like this: https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2021/dismantling-evaluation/

This was an excellent introduction to misinformation and disinformation and how to recognize and combat them - a vital skill in today's world, unfortunately. Kiddo (10) was fascinated and listened rapt every night. We read a chapter a night, which was about the right amount of information to keep it from becoming overwhelming.

There were a few things that could have been improved, however. There were a few mistakes in the section talking about how statistics and graphs can be used to lie, which made things unnecessarily confusing. The author also inexplicably lumped social media and search engines together, which resulted in several statements that were misleading or wrong. The author also simplified a few studies to the point where they didn't make sense.

I think it needed another edit by someone more familiar with statistics and graphs and also by someone with more knowledge of search engines and social media and how they work.

It also clearly is trying very hard to avoid being labeled "political" because it shies away from mentioning *anyone* by name and it becomes very obvious. Even when examples are given, the author chooses to avoid any mention of Trump or his campaign and instead uses examples like the tobacco industry in the 1980s to show purposeful disinformation . Which... has much less relevance to today's kids and makes it have less impact.

Overall though, it was excellent and I'll be recommending it.

*Thanks to NetGalley and Magination Press for providing an early copy for review.

Social media is truly a breakthrough in today's society and I think that is good for us to look for anything we want to know in social media. But, at expense, sometimes, we don;t know whether information that we got is true or false, because so many hoax in social media. This book will help a lot of teens to take a critical attitude for many informations that they got.

I found this to be a fun and engaging introductory text to Perception, Misinformation, and Disinformation. It is approachable to younger readers, it's target audience,

Boy do we need more books like this out there in the world.

It’s somewhat devastating to me to realize how truly essential the knowledge presented in <i>True or False?: The Science of Perception, Misinformation, and Disinformation</i> actually is. At the same time, I cannot thank the author enough for putting everything together. As someone who has watched family members deteriorate under the ever expanding pressure of both misinformation and disinformation, I wish so many more of us had some of the skills this book highlights we need.

Furthermore, it’s so essential in ensuring that the future generations do not fall prey to the misery that such experiences create. We need to learn how to think critically, to take a step back and verify what we think we know in a way that is factually based. And boy, is it hard.

I won’t pretend that I haven’t fallen prey to some of the lies that have spread about the internet. I definitely have. And it’s taken a lot of work over the years to try and deprogram my brain from continuing to do so. We need multitudes of generations to continue pushing toward developing defense mechanisms to false information.

This book is so important.

One thing I will note, however, is that the book is a long read. It’s, at times, even kind of exhausting. Despite the picture on the cover, I wouldn’t consider this a children’s book, though I could see it being read with middle-grade or high school students. And honestly, probably best to do so in segments.