Social media is destroying our notion of an agreed-upon Truth, taking us back to the oral tradition of pre-literate days. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b08a250ffe16c0e1913ccae/master/pass/PrintingPress-FINAL.jpg
Tag: ‘Posttruth’
How we got here: The origins of post-truth anti-environmentalism
This article is part of an ongoing series from the Post-Truth Initiative, a Strategic Research Excellence Initiative at the University of Sydney. The series examines today’s post-truth problem in public discourse: the thriving economy of lies, bullshit and propaganda that threatens rational discourse and policy. The project brings together scholars of media and communications, government […]
‘Media freedom has never been so threatened… We have reached the age of post-truth, propaganda, and suppression of freedoms’
AFP Paris (AFP) – Press freedom has never been as threatened as it is now, in the “new post-truth era of fake news” after the election of US President Donald Trump, Reporters Without Borders warned Wednesday. Its annual World Press Freedom Index warned of the “highly toxic” media-bashing of Trump’s election campaign and Britain’s Brexit […]
‘Post-truth’ & ‘post-fake’ crossroads: Russian FM’s top quotes at Munich Security Conference
Mankind is at the “crossroads,” with the so-called “liberal world order” having failed to adjust to post-Cold War reality, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov told the Munich Security Conference, adding that only cooperation could take the current post-truth era to the age of post-fake. READ MORE: NATO expansion led to tension in Europe unprecedented in last […]
