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Steven Pinker Dialogue

The Munk Debates Podcast

CHAPTER

We're Living in a Post Truth Society

There is a perception, a strong one, that we are living in what people characterize as a post truth society. Stephenn: The contributors to irrationality are in our nature and have always been with us. He says the mechanisms of spreading information by hyper partisan media and social media mean that they often do an end run around the conventional mechanisms of fact checking or error correction.

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