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Meanings of post-truth in English

Russian
фейковые новости
Portuguese
notícia falsa
Catalan
fake news
Spanish
noticias falsas
Wikidata

False or misleading information presented as news.

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фейковые новости
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Examples for "fake news"
Examples for "fake news"
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But making fact checking yet another industry may simply institutionalise fake news.
The South African
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The main issue at hand, right now, is rooting out fake news.
The South African
3
Now, he's working to solve a much harder AI problem: fake news.
Wired
4
Internet companies have moved to tackle fake news as the elections approach.
Reuters
5
It's been a particularly bruising week in the fight against fake news.
The South African
1
But the point remains... Chuck Todd: Wait a minute... alternative facts?
The Guardian
2
You may notice Orwellian terms like ' alternative facts' finding themselves into modern langauage.
Radio NZ
3
And what are the alternative facts on which his greatness depends?
Radio NZ
4
There is a lot of fake news and alternative facts about Fifa circulating.
The Irish Times
5
Fake news, or alternative facts -depending on how you interpret these things.
The Irish Times
1
On Facebook, extreme hard-right pages share the widest range of junk news sources and circulate more of it than any other pages.
The Guardian
1
Hoax news, propaganda and misinformation have been around for as long as people have communicated.
The South African
Usage of post-truth in English
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The post-truth era is therefore anything but new within the African context.
The South African
2
Perhaps this is considered smart strategising in our noxious post-truth political times.
The Guardian
3
Even in a post-truth world everyone knows 'Themcgregornator' is a United fan.
The Irish Times
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That was before post-truth became the word of the year in 2016.
The Guardian
5
You know what they say about us living in a post-truth world?
News.com.au
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And what triggered our transition to the post-truth era -the internet?
The Guardian
7
Oxford Dictionaries says post-truth is thought to have been first used in 1992.
Radio NZ
8
This erosion of meaning is typical of the current post-truth era.
The Guardian
9
In fact, humans have always lived in the age of post-truth.
The Guardian
10
If Britain votes to leave, post-truth politics will have triumphed - polluting our democracy.
Reuters
11
Homo sapiens is a post-truth species, whose power depends on creating and believing fictions.
The Guardian
12
We are often told we are living in a time of "post-truth".
The Guardian
13
What does it mean to say we are in a "post-truth world"?
The Irish Times
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But in the post-truth era, everything looks like a lampoon.
The Irish Times
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Is Ireland ready for its first post-truth referendum campaign?
The Irish Times
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Surely in the post-truth age we have to act against those who knowingly purvey falsity?
The South African