Thursday, October 19, 2017

Report Finds Experts Split On Digital's Role In A Post-Post-Truth World

Report Finds Experts Split On Digital's Role In A Post-Post-Truth World

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An exhaustive study of more than 1,000 experts finds they are split over the impact digital media will have on society's consensus of truth. The report, "The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online," released this morning by the Pew Research Center, opens with the fact that the Oxford Dictionaries declared "post-truth" as the word of the year for 2016, defining it as "relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief."



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October 19, 2017 at 09:31AM

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