Three donors have pledged a combined $1 million to support rand's research on truth decay

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Joel Mogy has seen"truth decay"spreading through the financial world.Tim Wolf has seen it creeping into big business.And Karen Elliott House has seen it eating away at the foundations of American journalism,and American democracy.What they share is a long commitment to RAND,and support for its research on truth decay,the diminishing role of facts and analysis in public life.They have pledged a combined $1 million to push that work forward and help it reach as broad an audience as possible.Each of them described it as essential at this moment in American history."If you don't have the truth,if you don't have a set of unassailable facts,then you've got confusion,you've got mayhem,you've got dissonance,and you've got corruption,"Wolf said."There's really no more important cause.Without truth,you can't address climate change,you can't address poor education or health.The list is a mile long."