Post Truth be told
Episodes
When Information Becomes a Weapon: The EU’s Turn to FIMI
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As the EU seeks to defend democracy from foreign interference, it is reframing information as a potential security threat. This is reshaping how Europ...
Educating for Democracy: Empowering Citizens to Identify Good Information
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
European federalists have long wished for the EU to be taught in schools, but the real chance for Europeanised education may lie in fostering critical...
Policy alternatives to EU’s regulation of disinformation
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we unpack three proposals on democratic responses to disinformation, from social media regulation and algorithmic transparency to str...
RECLAIM Final Conference, entitled “Frontiers of Truth: Reclaiming liberal democracy in a post-factual world”
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode is a bit special, as it was recorded in the context of the RECLAIM Final Conference, and it was a panel entitled “Beyond the cli...
Forget FOMO, This Is FIMI
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we explore how the EU's emerging FIMI (Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference) framework shifts the focus from truthfulness to inten...
Open Borders for Outrage
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Migration touches on deeply emotional, symbolic, and identity-driven issues. That makes it uniquely vulnerable to post-truth tactics, where fear and m...
Is Tech Biased—Or Are We?
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Algorithms decide what we see, what we miss, and influence what we believe. In this episode, we examine how digital technologies reflect and amplify s...
Breaking News: Journalism is in Crisis (Again)
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The very foundations of journalism—accuracy, verification, and trust—are under pressure. We discuss how journalism is adapting to survive in a wor...
The Post-Truth Presidency Returns
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump’s return to the Oval Office is more than a political comeback, it is evidence of how much post-truth has changed since 2016. The narrative the...
Navigating the Digital Whirlpool: the Struggle over the EU's DSA
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Digital Services Act, the EU’s digital regulation master stone, is designed with the intention of tackling content affecting democratic politica...
Protecting EU elections from what exactly?
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Democracy Dies in Darkness" is a motto adopted by the US newspaper The Washington Post in 2017. Does democracy need to be defended in the era of post...
What's Actually True About 'Post-Truth'?
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do we really live in a "post-truth" era? Can liberal democracy be reclaimed from polarised and epistemically disputed debates? This episode discusse...
Post Truth be told - Trailer
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A monthly podcast examining the effects of post-truth politics on contemporary societies. The podcast will share and discuss the results of RECLAIM, a...