Jonathan Rauch
The Constitution of Knowledge
National Affairs, 2018
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Internet trolls are undermining the social consensus on reality and truth.
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All politicians occasionally bend the truth. Brookings Institution fellow Jonathan Rauch argues, however, that United States President Donald Trump has broken with established norms by spreading falsehoods regularly and with a strategic purpose: to undermine the very concept of objective truth. Trump’s behavior, Rauch claims, is symptomatic of a larger trend. In recent years, internet propagandists have chipped away at a long-held, informal social consensus on how to derive facts – a process he refers to as the “constitution of knowledge.” getAbstract recommends this article to those concerned with the rise of disinformation in America.
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About the Author
Jonathan Rauch is an author and senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution.
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