The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

by Michiko Kakutani

A Rand Corporation report called this Putin model of propaganda “the firehose of falsehood”—an unremitting, high-intensity stream of lies, partial truths, and complete fictions spewed forth with tireless aggression to obfuscate the truth and overwhelm

“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”