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| Post-truth applies to statements, situations and arguments where facts are subordinated or subjected to obfuscation in pursuit of desired intepretations/outcomes. | |
The term Post-Truth was added to the Oxford English dictionary in 2016. The entry is as follows:
Adjective
Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief:
- "in this era of post-truth politics, it's easy to cherry-pick data and come to whatever conclusion you desire"
- "some commentators have observed that we are living in a post-truth age" [1]
Corporate media
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Corporate media
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Craig Murray wrote in 2016 that the "Mainstream media is not post-truth. It never had any connection to the truth."[2]
Institute for Statecraft
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Institute for Statecraft
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The Institute for Statecraft is a group with en extreme degree of focus on "Russian Propaganda". A Leaked document by Euan Grant documented his interest in “making use of fictional work for reinforcing messages about Russian hybrid warfare” [3]. The group has also defined "disinformation" to include only what the Kremlin does.
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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| Consensus trance | “Nine tenths of the news, as printed in the newspapers, is pseudo-news. Some days ten tenths. The ritual morning trance in which one scans columns of newsprint creates a peculiar form of generalised pseudo-attention to pseudo-reality... My own experience has been that renunciation of this self-hypnosis, of this particiption in this trance is not a sacrifice of reality.” | Thomas Merton | 1968 |
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References
- ↑ OED definition
- ↑ https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/12/twitter-facebook-censorship-mainstream-media-denial/
- ↑ Integrity Initiaitive/Leak/6#Euan Grant Objectives Tasks and Cluster relationships.pdf
