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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: Faction, Fears and Fake News - Panel 2: Post Truth
Description: Recorded November 7, 2017.
In Jonathan Swift’s essay on ‘Political Lying’ he comments poignantly that ‘the greatest liar hath his believers, and it often happens that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work, and there is no further occasion for it. Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.’
In what has been deemed a post-truth era, it is not solely ‘political lying’ which is in question, but an entire machine of misinformat...