Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Truth and lies, trust and doubt: how should we be navigating the misinformation crisis?

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par Jane Goodall, Emeritus Professor, Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University

“Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear.”

This statement might have been written last year – or last week – as a comment on the current state of political reporting. It is actually from Lying in Politics, an article by Hannah Arendt published in The New York Review of Books in November 1971. Her reflections were prompted…

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