POST-TRUTH AS A SOCIAL SYMPTOM AND INSTRUMENT FOR IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION
Journal: Scientific Notes of V I Vernadsky Crimean Federal University Philosophy Political science Culturology
Year: 2025

The article investigates specific characteristics of the post-truth discourse, which in inherent modern social communication. Post-truth is considered as a cognitive distortion rooted in the structure of bourgeois social identity, characterizing the emotivist personality type and the socio-manipulative type of relations. The position is substantiated according to which the role of the ontological basis of the post-truth discourse is performed by a new type of information objects — «factoids». Th