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In een wereld voorbij de waarheid

“What is meant when it’s said that we are now “post-truth”? According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the phrase denotes “circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping political debate or public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” It gives several examples, among them the earliest: “We, as a free people, have freely decided that we want to live in some…