A FRIGHTENINGLY AMUSING STORY BASED IN REAL LIFE EVENTS…NOT NECESSARILY ON THE TRUTH.

This is a seemingly light and easy to read book about a group of friends who join in a club to stop the spread of fake news on social media. However, the timeliness and brilliant portrayal of disinformation as a dangerous weapon of manipulation take the readers into a journey that will question the role of mainstream media in today’s information-driven society.

Isa, Pudim and Leo are students from Pedro Álvares Cabral School who decide to create the Inquiry Squad to expose Fake News on social networks. They do such an outstanding job that their lives are in danger when their investigations begin to bother the creator of the fake news himself: evil Fake Nilson. That’s when Débora gets on board and they are faced with an opportunity of a lifetime to unmask the villain and reveal his identity.

In the 2016 presidential campaign in the United States, candidate Donald Trump coined the expression“fake news” in numerous of his tweets. Although he didn’t create the term, he was indeed responsible for making it popular and spread it throughout the world.

Fake News is so powerful because it gives a much cooler explanation to a fact than the its true real version. It figures that Fake News are shared six times faster than true news because they draw much more attention.

A fun and poignant story written for our generation. The Inquiring Squad – Fake news hunters is a well-written, thought-provoking adventure story that is extremely timely in light of today’s media (almost) unchallenged super powers.

Marcelo Duarte (http://guiadoscuriosos.uol.com.br) is a Brazilian journalist and author of Brazil’s most successful trivia book: O Guia dos Curiosos (The Great Guidebook for the curious mind: Puzzling Questions. Mind-Stretching Answers). He hosts a couple of radio talk shows in Brazil and the ESPN Brazil TV show “Loucos por Futebol” (Crazy for soccer) for 12 years. Marcelo also writes the column “Curiocity” for O Estado de São Paulo—on of Brazil’s major newspapers.