post truth, n.Trivia

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.

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."