Understanding The Post-Truth Era
We are living in an age in which clandestine technologies exploit big data and social media, manipulating, polarizing and entrenching opinion. A climate has arisen where trust has evaporated, conspiracy…
Post-Truth
Social Media and the Post-Truth Society
We are living in a society where every day, we find out that whatever we had been doing, we had been doing it wrong. From narratives about a historical civilization…
Reclaiming ‘Truth’ from ‘Lies’ and ‘Bullshit’ in the ‘Post Truth’ Society
Truth as Interpretation There can be different versions of truth from what has been already accepted as truth. In 1951, renowned Japanese moviemaker Akira Kurosawa made one of the greatest…
The Truth About Our Acceptance Of Manufactured Truth
Post-truth, a dubious compound word has been officially recognised and admitted into the Oxford dictionary in 2016 thereby acknowledging its legitimacy. Shamefully, our acceptance of this word into our…
Fake News, Hacked Mail, Alternative Facts – That’s Old Hat For Climate Scientists
Distortion? False information? Conspiracy theories? Hacked email? Climate scientists have known all this for decades. What can be learned from their rich experience with climate propaganda. The world is slowly…
Post-Truth Is A ‘Relative’ Concept; India Experiencing It For Years
The pendulum swings both ways. Big things or changes in socialactions and behaviour of human beings, in its true macro sense, do not happen within a year. To a…
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