In her 2018 book, The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump, she documented the president's first unhinged phase of wild and whirling words, and placed it in the context of postmodernism, which had undermined the authority of shared narrative viewpoints, and collapsed Enlightenment faith in the sanctity of fact.
It had led to a narcissistic relativism in the culture that allowed [all] people to insist that their opinions were just as valid as objective truths verified by scientific evidence or serious investigative reporting.
With little evidence that the corrosive habits and trends she described are in retreat, she has expanded that thesis in this book, to take in global currents of fake news and technological disruption, the forces that seem to fuel our increasingly polarised and unstable world.
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