Why facts are not enough in the fight against fake news

摘要

You might have read that we live in a "post-truth" era in which facts no longer matter and emotion reigns supreme. But Dorothy Byrne takes issue with the idea of anything being "post-truth". "You can be pre- or post-breakfast," she says, "but you can't actually be pre- and post-truth; it's a different form of concept." Likewise, Byrne says, there is no such thing as "fake news". "If it's fake, it can't be news because news is about something that actually happened."