THE most fashionable word after Brexit and Donald Trump’s triumph in 2016 as US president-elect was “post-truth”, roughly defined as the “cherry-picking of data to support emotive politics”.
If there is no truth or objective facts, because all media is subject to manipulation, then are we living in “Alt-future”, an alternative future where there are no truths, only selective lies?
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