Philosophers have tackled the relationship of society to truth before. Popper's The Open Society and its Enemies is an old example, and more recent is Frankfurt's On Bullshit, which is particularly relevant to Trump and the general "post-truth" thing. — Pfhorrest
The news media has become very selective in what it states and prints and is politically biased - on both ends of the political spectrum. How are philosophers to solve this problem? — John Gill
And you're appearing to rationalise Trump's egregious bullshitting, which is a red rag to a bull for me and a lot of others — Wayfarer
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