The Politics of Epistemic Fragmentation
How the illusion of consensus was always a power play, and what to do now that it has shattered
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12 min readFeb 12, 2020
Over the past few years, it has seemed as though the only thing ‘real news’ outlets can agree on is the danger of ‘fake news’. Foreign powers or domestic traitors are accused of engineering political divisions, creating ‘polarization’, and…