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A pattern of shading the truth takes its toll

Fakes and truth in modern Lithuanian politics

F ake news has become a great problem in our life. The more so, questionable news and lack of clarity can seriously influence society and bring chaos to the minds of ordinary people.

DONALD TRUMP is our first post-truth president. And he may well be the first of many.

The Oxford Dictionaries website chose “post-truth” as its 2016 word of the year, in large part due to Trump’s success in the presidential election. It defined post-truth as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”