The seed was sown when Orwell himself was at the receiving end of Stalinist lies while fighting in the Spanish Civil War. The propaganda on both sides was so contemptuous of reality, he later wrote, ...

Fiction is now the new truth. Not since Nazi fake news generator Joseph Goebbels claimed that, “if you tell a big enough lie and keep repeating ... re-reading George Orwell’s 1984 and I ...

He kept emphasizing that there is a truth to all things ... be an ambiguous blessing. Orwell sought a style of writing in which it would be impossible to lie without knowing it.

You had to redefine truth as "whatever we say it is ... all that 1984 warns against — starting with the bare-faced lies that Orwell was most concerned about. The lies that social media ...