The Sydney Initiative for Truth (SIFT) is concerned with the need for evidence, nuance, trust, and reason in today’s ever-noisier infosphere. SIFT’s interdisciplinary researchers aim to understand and remedy the ‘post truth’ crisis. Through philosophy, linguistics, political science, public health, media, environmental science, and data science, we are investigating a range of issues around truth, including the quality of public discourse, commercial influence in research, historical trends in ‘truth decay’
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