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When you can't distinguish truth from fiction in daily conversations

Everyone at work talks about news like they're experts but I can't tell what's real anymore so I just nod along and feel like a fraud.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The social pressure to have opinions has collided with the impossibility of certainty, creating performative knowledge.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Disinformation and its technology?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.