(FINANCIAL TIMES) It has been just two months since former United States president Barack Obama solemnly told The Atlantic magazine that his country was "entering into an epistemological crisis".
"If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what's true from what's false, then by definition, the marketplace of ideas doesn't work," he declared. "And by definition, our democracy doesn't work."
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