4 November 2016

CIBS researchers Vincent F. Hendricks and David Budtz Pedersen behind article in Hipporeads.com

The article is titled ‘Setting the Record Straight on Post-factual Democracy’

They explain:

Democracy is indeed challenged when it comes to the question of how to adequately handle facts. The thin red line between truthfulness and raw ideology seems increasingly unstable.

It’s time to set the record straight, clean up the terminology and clear up some misunderstandings. It’s too easy to derail the debate on post-factual democracy either because the diagnosis of the post-factual is seen as partisan politics or as a misconception of some particular historical period: “Once upon a time, politicians, journalists and researchers spoke nothing but the truth and citizens listened”. That’s not the way of the world, probably never was.

Read the full article on hipporeads.com