# Seeking Truth in the Misinformation Age

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/seeking-truth-in-the-misinformation-age>

**By** Jonathan Rauch, Trevor Burrus, Aaron Ross Powell

**Published:** June 11, 2021

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Jonathan Rauch joins the podcast to discuss how America faces an uphill battle to distinguish fact from fiction.

## Shownotes:

Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent phenomenons appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multi-front challenge to America’s ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood.

What is truth? Is truth the same thing as knowledge?

## Further Reading:

[The Constitution of Knowledge](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08CNN94G8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0), written by Jonathan Rauch