Somebody Told Me
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  • Published: 9 May 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529932010
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Narrator: Danny Wallace
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Somebody Told Me

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

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Paperback
12 Aug 2025
EBook
9 May 2024
Audiobook
9 May 2024
Hardback
9 Jun 2024
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The million-copy bestselling author of Yes Man and Join Me immerses himself in the contagious, dangerous world of disinformation, everyday lies, trolls, conspiracy theories and those trying to fight back.

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?
  • Published: 9 May 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529932010
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Narrator: Danny Wallace
Categories:

About the author

Danny Wallace

Danny Wallace is a Sunday Times-bestselling author who lives in London. His first book, Join Me, was described as a ‘word-of-mouth phenomenon’ by The Bookseller and ‘one of the funniest stories you will ever read’ by the Daily Mail. His second book, Yes Man – in which he decided to say ‘Yes’ to everything – became a hugely successful film with Jim Carrey in the lead role.

His column in ShortList magazine reaches more than 1.3 million readers weekly. He was the PPA Columnist of the Year 2011 and the Arqiva Radio Presenter of the Year 2012 for his work as the host of the triple Sony Award-winning Xfm Breakfast Show with Danny Wallace. GQ magazine has called him: ‘One of Britain’s great writing talents’.

www.dannywallace.com

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Praise for Somebody Told Me

Danny Wallace lightens this dark topic about lies and propaganda with his trademark humour and gets the balance just right.

BBC, Books to Read in 2024

Shocking, timely and - as you’d expect from Danny Wallace - very funny.

Adam Kay

This is a Danny Wallace book and it is therefore brilliant. He is not capable of writing a dull sentence or a pointless chapter or something that lacks either depth or wit. Certainly if he does any of that in this book, I couldn’t find it. And that’s no lie.

Daniel Finkelstein

Thrilling, thought-provoking, funny and wise. Danny has an incredible knack for taking the bizarre fringes and rabbit holes of humanity and making them compulsively laugh-out-loud readable.

Danny Robins, journalist, presenter of Uncanny and writer of 2:22 A Ghost Story

Fascinating, hilarious and touching. Often all at once.

John Niven, bestselling author of O Brother and Kill Your Friends

Essential. One of the few books I’ve immediately told my children to read.

Alex Horne, author and comedian