Isn’t this the “business model” of Murdoch Media the opportunity to influence rather than inform the social construction of our reality from just individual opinions to behavioural and institutionalised trends that guarantee the patterns of our behaviours. Ask Indigenous Australians, women and the disadvantaged they know only too well. It’s why critical thought is always necessary. (ODT)

“In reality, some people may not encounter any fact-checks at all,” the paper reads.

And both the paper and Mr Farrer warned people might eventually forget about being corrected and fall back on their default position.

The future of liberal democracy depended on overcoming our “epistemological crisis”, he said.

“Politics is in danger of breaking down if people aren’t able to or willing to make determinations based on factual information,” Mr Farrer said.

“We don’t know what is true anymore and it is going to get harder and harder.”

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