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Complotism, relativism, post-truth: whose fault is it?

2020-11-16T23:55:01.975Z


ANALYSIS - The fight against "fake news" has never ceased to occupy part of the progressive intelligentsia. This is ineffective: it only convinces those who already agree.


The incredible success of the documentary "Hold-up", which highlights delusional ends (jumble: "great reset", bacteriological warfare, nanoparticles and crypto-currencies) to a pandemic which we refuse to accept. either due to chance, gave rise to a media concert of dismayed denunciation of conspiracy and its devastating effects on democracy.

The failure of the mainstream media to effectively deconstruct the conspiratorial discourse with a great deal of “fact-checking” should raise questions about the inability of the postmodern to counter this relativism.

A relativism that he helped to produce and which is present at all levels of society.

To read also:

Hold-Up: how the financing platforms validated the documentary

Indeed, if there is a populist conspiracy, unanimously boasted, there is also a post-truth in certain elites, less often denounced.

With what weapons to convince those who see fraud everywhere in the election of Joe Biden, when one has spent four years oneself suspecting the Russian hand in the election of Donald Trump?

How? 'Or' What

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Source: lefigaro

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