Truth in the Post-Truth Era: It’s Not That Complicated

Why you don’t need to worry about lying politicians, fake news, or filter bubbles

Maarten van Doorn
The Understanding Project
9 min readDec 12, 2019

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A lot has been said recently about ‘post-truth’. If you’re at all interested in understanding our culture, the term seems to show up everywhere. The usual narrative runs like so:

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Maarten van Doorn
The Understanding Project

Essays about why we believe what we do, how societies come to a public understanding about truth, and how we might do better (crazy times)