Obama: "If we are not serious about facts, and what's true and what's not… then we have problems." https://t.co/pO2n4KtSJv
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 17, 2016
Post-truth, the Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year, “an adjective defined as ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief’”. Nicely timed for the triumph of the Trump, as per the latest news from Ford…
2/ Our president-elect tweeted something that clearly implies his election prevented a plant from moving southhttps://t.co/YCwitwgdmX
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) November 18, 2016
Just got a call from my friend Bill Ford, Chairman of Ford, who advised me that he will be keeping the Lincoln plant in Kentucky – no Mexico
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 18, 2016
There is Lincoln MKC production at the Louisville plant, but…there was no announced plan to close it. (?) https://t.co/7toWh4fO3u
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 18, 2016
4/ Have simply made up that he saved a plant and American jobs. But he knows what he's doing — there are now fake stories all over the
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) November 18, 2016
6/ Do a Google News search: https://t.co/NIWXKvAkSo
Multiple fake conservative sites have already picked up on this, as did Reuters, for
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) November 18, 2016
8/ is becoming increasingly unclear that what Trump does or doesn't do is, thanks to fake news, *completely* untethered from the real
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) November 18, 2016
10/to play out when it comes to really complex policy matters that even informed people have trouble following. Completely post-truth. We
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) November 18, 2016
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