THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUTH?
THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUTH?

Author(s): Erin Duffy, Kierat Ranautta-Sambhi
Subject(s): Politics, Media studies, Communication studies, Theory of Communication
Published by: NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
Keywords: communication; media; politics; truth; post-truth; proof; evidence; fake news; instant news;
Summary/Abstract: Appeals to relativist notions of truth have revealed that the way we judge truth has become a political as much as a philosophical debate. Thus, it is even more important that we carefully consider terms such as ‘truth’, ‘proof’, or ‘evidence’, particularly in the era of instant news, where the court of public opinion is constantly challenged to judge the truthfulness of information.

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