Post-Truth Politics A Brave New World?

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In recent years rapid innovations in generative AI and social media technologies have enabled fake news to explode across our social media accounts and TV screens. Post-truth political content now routinely manipulates our realities microtargeting us exploiting our desires and turning our fears against us. It is an age where politics runs on emotion not cognition and where the democratization of disinformation has spawned a whole new global industry of disinformation entrepreneurs. It has amplified polarization using hate anger and fear as its oxygen. Fake news continues to bolster levels of right-wing populism not seen since the 1930s. If left unchallenged it will continue to place its jac…