The Systemic Attack On Truth, How To Fight Back

The Systemic Attack On Truth, How To Fight Back

Across the world, the truth is losing. Journalists are being silenced, newsrooms gutted, and entire societies are sliding into what might be called informational authoritarianism: a state where facts are on the back foot because the infrastructure that delivers them is under siege and even collapsing.

The attack is not confined to the usual suspects. It comes from democracies as much as dictatorships, from algorithms and business interests, from exhaustion and technological disruption as much as ideology.

As a baseline shocking fact,

a record number of journalists were killed worldwide in 2024
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Author's summary: The truth is under attack globally.

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MediaPost MediaPost — 2025-11-03

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