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Reasons Why Post-truth Claims Are Plausible, and Evidence That They Are Not true

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Reasons Why Post-truth Claims Are Plausible, and Evidence That They Are Not true

Algorithms and the new (dis)information landscape: disaster afoot or unjustified epistemic panic?

Maarten van Doorn
Apr 30, 2021
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Reasons Why Post-truth Claims Are Plausible, and Evidence That They Are Not true

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Part I.

“The world that we have to deal with is out of reach, out of sight, out of mind. It has to be explored, reported, and imagined. [The media dominate this creation of pictures in our heads, because] they are the principal connection between events in the world and the images in the minds of the public.”

–         Walter Lippmann, The World Outside a…

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