Are we losing our grip on truth? We live in a world in which we can find out anything we want at the click of a button. But some think it is harder than ever to know what is really true.
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Are we losing our grip on truth? We live in a world in which we can find out anything we want at the click of a button. But some think it is harder than ever to know what is really true.
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DictatorsRulers with total power over a country. are powerful leaders who rule over people without any limits. They make everyone do exactly what they want them to do.
In the past, dictators could shut down anyone who disagreed with them. Now, some think modern dictators work in a new way.
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman are the authors of a new book called Spin Dictators. In the book, they argue that modern dictators do not aim to crush their people. Instead, they confuse them.
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Spin dictators, they say, do not simply shut down newspapers. They buy them, and make them write positive stories about them.
In the end, people do not know who they can trust, or what information is really true.
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Are we losing our grip on truth?
Yes! In today's world, politicians have new tools to control people. It is impossible to know exactly what is true online.
No! Most people today know that not everything online can be trusted. People know to think carefully about what they read, see and hear.
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Dictators - Rulers with total power over a country.
Brainwashing is back (and deadlier than ever)
Prophetic: Aldous Huxley’s classic warned of a future where truth simply loses all meaning. Glossary
Dictators - Rulers with total power over a country.