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Somebody Told Me...

One Man's Unexpected Journey Down the Rabbit Hole of Lies, Trolls, and Conspiracies

By: Danny Wallace

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Paperback | 3 June 2025

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320 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54

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Have you been keeping your eye on your grandma lately? Have you been calling her enough? You sure she's not spending too much time on YouTube? Is she talking fondly of dictators? Has she suddenly started quietly muttering in the Aldi queue about the "Jewish Space Lasers" she's heard are setting wildfires around the world to make sure everyone believes in climate change? When was the moment the world began to believe anything?

Danny Wallace, million-copy bestselling author of Yes Man and Join Me, has fallen down the modern rabbit hole of lies, conspiracies and disinformation. Along the way, he encounters families torn apart by accusations and fake news, journalists putting themselves on the frontline of the disinformation war, reformed conspiracy theorists, influencers who see profit in stoking paranoia, and the shadowy nameless, faceless trolls on the other side of our screens. He discovers how disinformation and well-told lies can ruin a year or a whole life, how they can affect our family, our street, our community. How they can spread across a country, a continent, even the world. How they take hold of our imaginations and make us feel both helpless and powerful.

And Danny asks: can you do anything to stop it - even with the truth on your side?

Industry Reviews

"A rollicking ride through conspiracism, disinformation, and the madness of our current trust crisis thats both universal and deeply personal. Written with equal parts compassion and befuddled shock, the stories in Somebody Told Me... will instantly be familiar to anyone who has lost a loved one to conspiracy theories, wellness quackery, or unhinged paranoia." ~Mike Rothschild, author of Jewish Space Lasers and The Storm is Upon Us

"Wallace's book is a crucial guidebook to navigating the daily morass of deception and disinformation that pervades modern American society." ~Booklist

"Wallace spotlights nutty theories on everything from 5G to Princess Kate, dissecting with fine comic irony the hucksterism that underlies many of them... an entertaining survey of whats addling public discourse." ~Publishers Weekly

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