Truth - the first casualty of war


  • Letters
  • Monday, 28 Feb 2022

It looks like Russians, Ukrainians and the rest of the world suddenly found themselves swamped by a dire bottomless information spiral, where misinformation is cooked faster than fast food and ruthless one-sided judgements are made without second thought, dividing people who would otherwise be on friendly terms. Let’s just stop for a moment.

Every time, something appalling happens in the world, there is a plethora of self-made experts on each and every matter – and through this, we’ve been flooded with pseudo-expertise on the Taliban, US foreign policy, Kazakhstan domestic political dynamics, and even the doping expertise for Olympic sportsmen – the list goes on.

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