No, but I have a slight hangover from speaking with a Russian friend in the EU who does not believe that there is any "truth." That could be coloring my comments here.

Understood. The people that are the most vocal around this whole 'post truth' thing are as a rule part of the problem, rather than part of the solution. Usually it boils down to 'don't trust the government, don't trust your eyes, don't trust the media and don't trust your friends', but here is a link to a shady website with a bunch of ridiculous stuff that you should definitely trust. Very boring, really.

> Very boring, really.

Indeed. But even worse, it is also exhausting.

Meta: This post was removed from the HN feed entirely. Not just bumped off the frontpage, as I have seen before. From frontpage to oblivion. Would love to know the admin logic there.

Now it is flagged, but it was removed from the feed prior to that by admins.

I know, I know, first rule of fight club. But to quote Cicero, what's the point of fake internet points if you can't use them?

Less boring: you are speaking as if you necessarily have an accurate read on the situation, when actually you are heavily speculating, necessarily.

There's a reason propaganda and misinformation works so well on all citizens, "smart" or "dumb": the "advanced" skills needed to cut through it are not taught in our culture, in the era we find ourselves in, so these skills are largely nonexistent in the wild.

This could be changed, as literacy rates and many other things were back when we cared about such things.