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Anton Savage: Why do so few of us continue to seek truth in the post-fact world of Donald Trump?
The fact is, we’re now at the stage where too many of us refuse to let the truth get in the way of our pre-conceived and often outrageous versions of events
Facts are dead. Their time is gone, they were a fad whose usefulness has passed. For those of us who have long believed that facts were what you used to convince people of things, this is not easy to accept, but it’s true.
In actuality, we might be better off if we’d given up on facts some time ago. Take Brexit – as the Leave Campaign used Facebook data to disseminate daft unsupportable assertions about ...
