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Post-truth

                                                 Post-truth is named as the word of the year 2016 by oxford dictionary. It defines Post truth as... “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” The word post truth is attributed two main global events: 1)Donald Trump set to take the white house 2) U.K. on the precipice of leaving the European Union. Post truth is usually describes a situation in which the importance of actual facts is replaced by emotional state of mind for influencing public opinion. It can be also said that the term post truth was popularized with the publication of the book ‘The Post truth era’(2004) written by Ralph Keyes Nowadays we live in the era of the post truth where people are quite happy to believe untruths. The real idea or the real meaning of truth was lost in this era. Common people always  have been manipul