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**'TOM PHILLIPS IS A VERY CLEVER, VERY FUNNY MAN' Greg Jenner** **This is a book about TRUTH - and all the ingenious ways,** **throughout history, that we've managed to avoid it.** We live in a 'post-truth' age, we're told. The US has a president who openly lies on a daily basis (or who doesn't even know what's true, and doesn't care). The internet has turned our everyday lives into a misinformation battleground. People don't trust experts any more. But was there ever *really* a golden age of truth-telling? As the editor of the UK's leading independent fact-checker, Tom Phillips deals with complete bollocks every day. Here, he tells the story of how we humans have spent history lying to each other - and ourselves - and asks an important question: how can humanity move towards a truthier future? **PRAISE FOR *HUMANS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HOW WE F\*CKED IT ALL UP:*** 'F\*cking brilliant' **Sarah Knight, *The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F\*ck*** 'Very funny' **Mark Watson** 'In dark times, it's reassuring to learn that we've always been a bunch of clueless f\*cking nitwits' **Stuart Heritage, *Don't Be a Dick, Pete*** 'A light-touch history of moments when humans have got it spectacularly wrong... Both readable and entertaining' ***Telegraph***