Post-Truth: The Dark Side of the Brain
A growing number of politicians are talking nonsense with impunity. False information is proliferating. What’s worse, the human brain loves it
It may seem surprising that after being elected president, Donald Trump continued to insist that the elections were rigged. Or that he accused his predecessor of having tapped his phone—without any proof. Or that one of his advisers claimed that the inauguration ceremony had shattered the record for attendance, which clearly it had not. But that would underestimate the new and baffling phenomenon of “post-truth,” of which Trump is the most striking example.
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