This trenchant analysis examines the countless ways our society’s increasingly tenuous commitment to facts laid the groundwork for Donald Trump’s rise to power.

Award-winning journalist Nathan Bomey argues that Trump didn’t usher the post-truth era into being. He was its unavoidable outcome. Bomey factors to recent tendencies that have developed an ideal seedbed for spin, distortion, deception, and bald-faced is situated: shifting news habits, the rise of social media, the spread of entrenched ideologies, and about After the Truth: The Erosion of Truth as well as the Unavoidable Rise of Donald Trump the failing of schools to teach basic critical-thinking abilities

The evidence supporting the author’s argument is all over: On Facebook, we present images of our lives that disregard the truth and intentionally deceive our friends and family. We consume artificial news stories online and carelessly circulate fake gossips. In politics, we vote for market leaders who leverage political narratives that favor ideology over technology. And in our institutions, we fail to teach students how exactly to authenticate information.

Following the Fact explores how the convergence of technology, politics, and media has ushered in the misinformation age, sidelining the reality and threatening our core principle of community.