Truth as social practice in a digital era: iteration as persuasion
Journal: AI & Society
Year: 2022

Abstract This article reflects on the problem of false belief produced by the integrated psychological and algorithmic landscape humans now inhabit. Following the work of scholars such as Lee McIntyre ( Post-Truth , MIT Press, 2018) or Cailin O’Connor and James Weatherall ( The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread , Yale University Press, 2019) it combines recent discussions of fake news, post-truth, and science denialism across the disciplines of political science, computer science, soc