In this article, we argue for a pragmatic understanding of the role news media and journalism not as truth keepers but mediators in public sphere. current debate on ‘post-truth politics’ emphasis is often put formulation ethical guidelines legal solutions to regain control over ‘unbound journalism’ or re-establish media. Instead holding journalists individually accountable spread fake news, con...

Recent years have witnessed the rise of populism and populist leaders, movements and policies in many pluralist liberal democracies, with Brexit and the election of Trump the two most recent high profile examples of this backlash against established political elites and the institutions that support them. This new populism is underpinned by a post-truth politics which is using social media as a...

In a recent editorial for this journal, Sergio Sismondo makes two claims. First, he states that STS bears no responsibility for the emergence of post-truth politics. Second, he claims that debates about the nature of expertise that take place within STS are irrelevant in this context. In contrast, we argue that, whether or not STS had a causal influence on the emergence of post-truth politics, ...

Abstract This article reviews Bram Büscher’s book The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism in the Era of Post-truth Politics and Platform Capitalism (2021).