Can we still handle the truth? Journalism, ‘alternative facts’ and the rise of AI | Lenore Taylor

The credo of Watergate is still relevant: find the best obtainable version of the truth. But doing so is only getting more complicated

We all have moments in life when we know something big is happening, that we are stepping into a new and consequential experience, and our mind takes a mental Polaroid, an intensely clear snapshot of what that moment looks like and how it feels, and then stores it away in a file marked important".

Well, my mind does anyway, and in my professional life so far there have been three.