Slingshotting through conspiracy theories, internet and popular culture, and perplexing psychological phenomena, this compendium illuminates diverse subjects: artificial intelligence, Auto-Tune, Chilean Sea Bass, Claques, Clickbait, Cognitive Dissonance, Cryptids, Dark Matter, False Flag Operations, Gaslighting, Gerrymandering, Kayfabe, Laugh Tracks, Milli Vanilli, Phantom Time Hypothesis, Photoshopping, Potemkin Villages, Rachel Dolezal, Strategery, Truthiness, and the Uncanny Valley. Encyclopedic in scope, but with an voice tuned to these bedeviling times, this is the modern reference book to engage a world rife with artifice and deception. --From publisher description.