News Summary

• Brought To You By tells the origin story of Big Oil's deceptions.
• It's a deeper story that must be reckoned with in order to comprehend today’s dizzying information system.
• The book details how the pivotal insight of playing offense gave rise over the ensuing century to a globe-straddling system of “information pollution” It draws on “university research co-opted by corporate funding and further eroded by think tanks,” such as the Heritage Foundation.