The central passage of the text, where the meaning of "post-truth" is defined, is this:
Good follow-up reading for this: An article in The New York Times, where Zeynep Tufekci writes about the role of Facebook in the spreading of non-truths (better known as: "lies").
And this is what Barack Obama thinks about this topic:
But the whole article is worth reading, as is the list of words that were also considered for this choice of 'word of the year':In the era of Donald Trump and Brexit, Oxford Dictionaries has declared “post-truth” to be its international word of the year.Defined by the dictionary as an adjective “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”, editors said that use of the term “post-truth” had increased by around 2,000% in 2016 compared to last year. The spike in usage, it said, is “in the context of the EU referendum in the United Kingdom and the presidential election in the United States”.
'Post-truth' named word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries
Good follow-up reading for this: An article in The New York Times, where Zeynep Tufekci writes about the role of Facebook in the spreading of non-truths (better known as: "lies").
And this is what Barack Obama thinks about this topic:
Barack Obama on fake news: 'We have problems' if we can't tell the difference https://t.co/ixd1v2mbph— Guardian news (@guardiannews) November 18, 2016
