recent years have witnessed the rise of populism and populist leaders, movements and policies in many pluralist liberal democracies, with brexit and the election of trump the two most recent high profile examples of this backlash against established political elites and the institutions that support them. this new populism is underpinned by a post-truth politics which is using social media as a...

Abstract Post-truth politics has been diagnosed as harmful to both knowledge and democracy. I argue that it can also fundamentally undermine epistemic autonomy in a way is similar the manipulative technique known gaslighting. Using examples from contemporary politics, identify three categories of post-truth rhetoric: introduction counternarratives, discrediting critics, denial more or less plai...