Social Media and the Politics of Post-Truth
Social Media and the Politics of Post-Truth

Summary/Abstract: Since the Trump presidential campaign of 2016, the concept of “post truth” has become a major concern regarding social media. However, this is by no means a recent concept. Two analytical perspectives can be discerned in regard topost-truth (and “fake news”): the first is the Nietzschean-Foucauldian one(perspectivism), which states that truth is only an anthropocentric metaphor and a discourse of power, a tool used to exercise power; the other point of view is that (“Truth and Politics”), who insists that the dissolution of truth leads to various forms of totalitarianism. This is the conceptual framework I use to analyze the concept of post-truth and its relation to media in what politics and morality are concerned. I also discuss some examples, like the climate change “culture wars.”

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