Thank you Netgalley and Unbound for providing me an ARC of this book, in exchange for an honest review.

"Not Buying It" is a book about fake news that is interesting and informative, but I was expecting a bit more.

In this book, the journalist Charlotte Henry talks about why fake news are common nowadays, and discusses recent political issues in which fake news had a relevant part, namely the 2016 American Elections and Brexit. In the end, she provides a few solutions for this phenomenon.

This book was insightful and interesting, and I especially enjoyed the two specific case studies. I knew fake news had an important part on both Brexit and Trump's election, but it's quite different to see it so well explained. I feel like this book would have helped me a lot with my Politics Communication class two years ago, as we talked a lot about this subject in class, and how fake news, along with other things like people's disbelief in political organizations, is affecting politics, and consequently our society, nowadays.

However, it was nothing new (at least to me) and I was expecting a bit more, since even the solutions were kind of obvious, and mostly theoretical. Nonetheless, I think this book is relevant for today, and I reccomend it if this subject is something that particularly interests you.

Isn't it scary that we're living in something called the ‘post-truth’ era? Charlotte A. Henry describes very eloquently what that entails, how fake news and alternative facts rose to prominence, and what we can do to combat them.
Highly recommendable and very relevant!