Ed Coper — Author, Facts & Other Lies
About ED
Ed Coopers 2022 book Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age is a timely look at how we arrived in the era of ‘fake news’. Ed’s work puts fake news in its historical context and explains how disinformation has fractured society, even threatening democracy itself. It explains why disinformation is so potent and so hard to stop, and what we can do to help prevent its proliferation in Australia - where politicians and shock jocks are already operating from the same dark playbook.
Former Deputy PM Wayne Swan said of Ed’s work ‘'Read this book if you want to save democracy.’. Ed is a leading political communications expert, and has been behind the scenes of many of the last decade’s most prominent social movements, including powering Change.org’s global expansion into over 18 countries. He founded the New York-based Centre for Impact Communications, tackling disinformation around us elections and overcoming vaccine hesitancy, and is the director of the Populares agency.