White House spokesman Sean Spicer and senior advisor Kellyanne Conway chat.
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How do we determine what is fact? An archaeologist explains how the answer has changed over time and why it matters so much now.
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Why do alternative histories of a Nazified world again have such commercial and cultural traction?
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We build in extra checks and balances, including blind peer review by a second academic expert, additional scrutiny and editorial oversight.
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There's never been greater need for the study of what we don't know, and why we're not supposed to know it.
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The BBC’s Sherlock – along with most contemporary adaptations – seems to indicate that the values of the intellect are not those of society.
The Conversation published 29 FactChecks over the eight week federal election campaign.
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Bald-faced lies are fairly rare in Australian politics but, in 2016, weasel-words and cherry-picking were common. Politicians and public figures are experts at disguising opinion and ideology as fact.
As alt-right ideology spreads worldwide, teachers and students develop skills to learn about respect and diversity of thoughts.
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How can educators face the new challenges brought by the Alt-Right and post-truth environment?
Waiting for superman: Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Are we all doomed to never agree on what is or isn't true?
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People who read false news items come to believe them – even if they know better. It doesn't help to know the source is unreliable or the report has been debunked.
Is it even Donald Trump? Or just a symptom of living in a post-truth world?
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Every one of us is vulnerable to thinking that the ideas we hold dear are reasoned or principled positions. But how many of our ideas are adopted and defended as part of our tribal identity?
Sharing election hashtags: Dots are Twitter accounts; lines show retweeting; larger dots are retweeted more. Red dots are likely bots; blue ones are likely humans.
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If people can be conned into jeopardizing our children's lives, as they do when they opt out of immunizations, could they also be conned out of democracy?
Balance is an empty term these days.
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In a 'post-truth' world, presenting both points of view can often be misleading.
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Leadership is an odd thing in a world where people only want their echo chamber defended. The power, and the responsibility, starts to lie elsewhere.
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Brexit and Trump aren't to blame. The rise of 'post-truth' is rooted in the middle-classes, not the masses.
Donald Trump has become the poster boy for ‘post-truth’ politics.
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We now find ourselves in a 'post-truth' environment, trying to find meaning in dumbed-down democracy. How did we get here?