Post-truth, fake news and the liberal ‘regime of truth’ – The double movement between Lippmann and Hayek

Since the 2016 United States presidential election and Brexit vote, media scholarship has lamented state of democratic public communication. Scholars have used concepts ‘post-truth’ ‘fake news’ to describe cocktail disinformation devaluation facts. This article illustrates how ruptures in communication stem from contradictions characterising liberalism its ‘regime truth’. Liberalism oscillated between efforts discipline market with such techniques as professional journalism and, on other hand, attempt enhance position mechanism a superior knowledge processor. The builds thinking Walter Lippmann Friedrich Hayek, two influential liberal thinkers differing ideas role experts society. Moreover, Karl Polanyi's concept ‘double movement’ is argue that problems regarding are systemic features logics.