What is La Posverdad Criolla?
What is la Posverdad Criolla?
Oxford Dictionary chose 'Postruth' as the word of the year 2016. It defines it as: "Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief".
Criollo means something made or done in Colombia.
So, La Posverdad Criolla is how we live postrtuth in Colombia. But, we live it before 2016. Our behavior, our circumstances and our public characters have made postruth grows and exists for us a normal thing.
We asked in the streets if people knew what postruth was.
Eduard Soto
International Editor of El Tiempo
Poly Martínez
Columnist of Semana
Andrés Barrero
PhD in Philosophy. Teacher in Andes University
Perla Toro
Social Media Editor of El Tiempo
'Tecnósfera' Editor of El Tiempo
Wilson Vega
Data Unit Editor of El Tiempo
Gina Morelo
A milestone of postruth in Colombia is the 8 years of Uribe's presidence, when he said in Colombia there was not an intern armed conflict.
In a world of postruth we are close to face posthistory
Postruth is the product of the constant and direct invasion of marketing techniques in politic and public modern debate.
'Postruth' describes the politic situation where voters made their decisions moved by emotions, not by data and reason. Postruth becomes manipulation.
This is not new. Postruth was not invented by Trump, neither Erdogan last year. Before we called it politics.
70% of people in Latin America get news throeugh social media. And we think fighting them is the solution.
As we did with experts, academics and journalists: