post-factualadjective
/ˌpəʊstˈfæk.tʃu.əl//ˌpoʊstˈfæk.tʃu.əl/also post-fact, /ˌpəʊstˈfækt//ˌpoʊstˈfækt/relating to a situation in which people are more likely to accept an argument based on their emotions and beliefs, rather than one based on facts:
We need to stop the slide into a post-factual democracy.
A post-fact world has emerged, in which virtually all authoritative information is challenged by facts of dubious quality.
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- Can democracy survive in the post-factual age?
- What is the role of the scientist in the post-factual world?
- In the post-factual age, politicians sometimes get what they want by getting the narrative right and the facts wrong.
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Lies, lying & hypocrisy
- artifice
- bad faith
- be a pack of lies idiom
- canard
- charade
- cobbler
- flimflam
- forked tongue
- half-truth
- hogwash
- humbug
- make sth up
- perjury
- polygraph
- pork pie
- porky
- post-truth
- propaganda
- stretch the truth idiom
- venal
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