post-truth

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In the post-truth era, public diplomacy counters online falsehoods and promotes compelling digital narratives for one's own truth.

A new paper by CPD Faculty Fellow Vivian Walker on Russian disinformation campaigns in Georgia.

Ilan Manor explains why "post-reality" is the most important digital diplomacy concept of the moment.

Richard Stengel, the State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy, bluntly states the problem that has been worrying him and should worry us all: “In a global information war, how does the truth win?” The very idea that the truth won’t be triumphant would, until recently, have been heresy to Stengel, a former managing editor of Time magazine.

October 31, 2006

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