(1) Whatever else might be said of the Kremlin’s information strategy, it is undoubtedly in tune with the zeitgeist: one that is also visible in America and Britain, where what Stephen Colbert memorably called “truthiness” can run roughshod over fact-based discourse.
(2) Certainly, the press has made its share of mistakes and had serious flirtations with what Steven Colbert labeled “truthiness” during the Bush years, when news organizations, including the Times, published stories based on false intelligence.
(3) Perhaps you think that's a small price to pay for being able to tell, from your browser's Truthiness Dashboard™, whether that person on your timeline really did just witness a dog skateboarding past his window wearing giant Beats headphones.
(4) Here we are with the freest access to knowledge in history, troves of data and facts at our fingertips and HG Wells’s dream of a world brain a reality , yet a tide of truthiness, propaganda and nonsense surges ever higher.