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?

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…