The ultra-right-wing media assumes the misleading nature of the facts once they have been debunked.
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This argument is a justification of The ultra-right is doing a lot of misinformation about violence committed by people of foreign origin..
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“We saw [the post-truth] triumph in the UK, when the very day after the vote in favor of Brexit, its defenders unabashedly admitted to having lied about the health benefits of leaving Europe. Or when François Fillon's campaign team didn't hesitate to greatly exaggerate the number of people present to support their candidate on the Place du Trocadéro. And what about the Turkish government, which complains about being censored in Europe while imprisoning its journalists? Or Russia, which fills the world with dubious information via clever media propaganda?”
Sebastian Dieguez, “Post-truth: the dark side of the brain”, Cerveau & Psycho, April 21, 2017.