Abstract Post-truth politics has been diagnosed as harmful to both knowledge and democracy. I argue that it can also fundamentally undermine epistemic autonomy in a way is similar the manipulative technique known gaslighting. Using examples from contemporary politics, identify three categories of post-truth rhetoric: introduction counternarratives, discrediting critics, denial more or less plai...

: This theoretical paper examines whether acquiring better literacy skills may help people to be less vulnerable various types of information disorders such as fake news or conspiracy theories. We start this venture by looking, first, at the relationships between vulnerability and (or, more generally, formal education), second, literacy-induced transfer effects on cognitive skills. Then we will...