Post-truth and democracy: Part 2

Johan Farkas mapped post-truth discourses comprehensively and subjected them to a searching examination in his book with Jannick Schou. In this episode and the previous one, we touch upon the understanding of democracy that is implicit in the mainstream post-truth narrative, the predicament and role of journalism, social media and filter bubbles, the lessons of Covid-19 and a host of related issues.

Highlights

• Regulating social media and big-tech
• Role of the elites
• How discourses influence politics
• A critique of the information-deficit model
• What Covid-19 tells us about science, truth and democracy

Links

See my article in The Philosophical Salon for links to many of the sources discussed in the episode.  

Post-truth, Fake news and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood. Johan Farkas and Jannick Schou. Routledge.