Post-truth

Post-truth
Start	2016
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"

Corporate media

Full article: Corporate media

Craig Murray wrote in 2016 that the "Mainstream media is not post-truth. It never had any connection to the truth."

Institute for Statecraft

Full article: Institute for Statecraft

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” . The group has also defined "disinformation" to include only what the Kremlin does.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
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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