> “Most people just read to kill time. Who is going to investigate? No one will. It only passes your eyes—there’s no need to pin down if it’s real or fake.” >

> “Most people just read to kill time. Who is going to investigate? No one will. It only passes your eyes—there’s no need to pin down if it’s real or fake.” > “Correctness doesn’t exist, because it’s always relative,” > I asked Deng why he thought the piece had resonated with such a large audience. “It’s purely made up, to be honest with you,” Deng replied. “It’s all made up. I’m not sure if I did the right thing. My boss asked me to write it. I think, if a new-media outlet wants to move people, you have to make them feel that it’s real.” OK, I think I get it now. "Post-Truth" content is how you cultivate nihilism in both your readers and writers while simultaneously making a buck and increasing the stability of your authoritarian government. What a corrosive enterprise.