"presupposes a lot of things about society that are, in my observation, no longer true." If you're thinking that 'society used to be able to tell what was a li

"presupposes a lot of things about society that are, in my observation, no longer true." If you're thinking that 'society used to be able to tell what was a lie from the truth' I'm sorry to say but that was never close to being true. Newspapers were a pretty strong filter of information and therefore could have some kind of 'rough' credibility, biases notwithstanding obviously. But with 'every Instagram a source of news' ... we have an existential truthiness problem that we're only beginning to learn to deal with.