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Topic: post-truth

An illustration shows a man exhaling smoke from an electronic cigarette in Washington, DC on October 2, 2018. - In just three years, the electronic cigarette manufacturer Juul has swallowed the American market with its vaporettes in the shape of a USB key. Its success represents a public health dilemma for health authorities in the United States and elsewhere. (Photo by EVA HAMBACH / AFP) (Photo credit should read EVA HAMBACH/AFP/Getty Images) (Eva Hambach/AFP/Getty Images)

The corporate art of deception

Keith A. Spencer
(AP/Eddie Adams/Shutterstock/Mireia Triguero Roura)

Neoliberalism and "post-truth" politics

Keith A. Spencer
This photograph taken in Paris Friday Dec. 2, 2016 shows stories from USA Daily News 24, a fake news site registered in Veles, Macedonia. An Associated Press analysis using web intelligence service Domain Tools shows that USA Daily News 24 is one of roughly 200 U.S.-oriented sites registered in Veles, which has emerged as the unlikely hub for the distribution of disinformation on Facebook. Both stories shown here are bogus. (AP Photo/Raphael Satter)​ (AP)

Mike Lee (AP/Justin Hayworth)

GOP Sen. Mike Lee bashes GOP

Cody Fenwick - Alternet
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A White House aide takes the microphone from CNN's Jim Acosta, during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018. A doctored video of this incident went viral. (AP/Evan Vucci)

How to talk to the post-truth right

Amanda Marcotte
Alex Jones on his YouTube Channel (YouTube/The Alex Jones Channel)

YouTube takes down four InfoWars videos

Nicole Karlis
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Facebook's censorship fail

Rachel Leah
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The misuses of "fake news"

Émile P. Torres
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Kris Kobach (AP/Charlie Riedel)

Bullsh**ter of the Day

Mireia Triguero Roura
Rush Limbaugh (Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)

Bullsh**ter of the Day

Mireia Triguero Roura
(AP/Chris Carlson/Getty/allanswart/Salon)

Donald Trump's post-truth

Erin Keane
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