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Post-truth (n.) is a condition in which feelings and personal belief sway public opinion more than objective facts do.
Post-truth (n.) is when "do your own research" means watching a longer video.
Post-truth (n.) is the triumph of the gut over the footnote.
Post-truth (n.) is an argument where both sides cite links and neither side clicks them.
Post-truth (n.) is when a fact check is treated as an opposing opinion.
Germany's language society picked the equivalent "postfaktisch" (post-factual) as its own 2016 word of the year.
Oxford Dictionaries named it 2016 Word of the Year after usage rose about 2,000% that year.
Post-truth (n.) is a world where the correction gets fewer views than the lie.
Playwright Steve Tesich used the term in a 1992 essay in The Nation: "we, as a free people, have freely decided that we want to live in some post-truth world."
Post-truth (n.) is believing something because it feels like something you'd believe.