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Author of The Truth Agenda and Conspiracies, Andy Thomas takes a sideways look at the continual media focus on the rise of Donald Trump, ‘fake news’, ‘post-truth’ and Brexit, and questions some of the assumptions being made about them. Was there really ever a pre-‘post-truth’ era, and if news is fake, which news, and who should be the arbiters of truth? Proposed ‘solutions’ seriously risk closing down legitimate alternative enquiry. Rather than living in the “dark” times we keep being told they are, could the challenges we are currently being presented with actually be the very things that help usher in a new and better era?
Recorded at Truth, Mysteries and New Frontiers (Glastonbury Symposium), July 2017
glastonburysymposium.co.uk
Author of The Truth Agenda and Conspiracies, Andy Thomas takes a sideways look at the continual media focus on the rise of Donald Trump, ‘fake news’, ‘post-truth’ and Brexit, and questions some of the assumptions being made about them. Was there really ever a pre-‘post-truth’ era, and if news is fake, which news, and who should be the arbiters of truth? Proposed ‘solutions’ seriously risk closing down legitimate alternative enquiry. Rather than living in the “dark” times we keep being told they are, could the challenges we are currently being presented with actually be the very things that help usher in a new and better era?
Recorded at Truth, Mysteries and New Frontiers (Glastonbury Symposium), July 2017
glastonburysymposium.co.uk
