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Truth Optional: How Digital Platforms Replaced the Press and Democracy Took the Hit

Summary by Literary Hub
Not so long ago, we had an understanding—however flawed—about what counted as truth. It wasn’t perfect. Journalism made mistakes, editors had biases, and cable news could be loud, theatrical, and deeply partisan. But for all its imperfections, the traditional press offered something that now feels oddly quaint: a shared reality. Even when we argued about […]
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In a world full of fake images, content generated by AI and algorithms that shape our perceptions, have we lost our grip on reality? For Lasana Harris, professor of social neuroscience at University College London, this confusion is nothing new: reality, he recalls, is first of all a social and mental construction. [...] The post Lasana Harris "A psychologist would probably say that we have never really been able to build a coherent reality" fir…

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Literary Hub broke the news in on Wednesday, July 23, 2025.
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