After the Fact: The Erosion of Truth and the Inevitable Rise of Donald Trump Audiobook (Free)

This trenchant analysis examines the countless ways our society’s increasingly tenuous commitment to facts laid the groundwork for Donald Trump’s rise to power.

Award-winning journalist Nathan Bomey argues that Trump did not usher the post-truth era into being. He was its unavoidable outcome. Bomey points to recent trends that have produced an ideal seedbed for spin, distortion, deception, and bald-faced is situated: shifting information practices, the rise of social media marketing, the spread of entrenched ideologies, and about Following the Reality: The Erosion of Truth as well as the Inevitable Rise of Donald Trump the failing of schools to teach basic critical-thinking skills

The evidence supporting the author’s argument is all around us: On Facebook, we present images of our lives that disregard the truth and intentionally deceive our relatives and buddies. We consume artificial news stories on the web and carelessly circulate false rumours. In politics, we vote for market leaders who leverage political narratives that favor ideology over technology. And inside our universities, we neglect to coach students how exactly to authenticate information.

After the Fact explores how the convergence of technology, politics, and media has ushered in the misinformation age, sidelining the truth and threatening our core principle of community.