What do scientific journals, the Department of Labor and the explosion of AI and social media all have in common? They are parts of a war on reality.

By now everybody knows the role the Trump administration is playing in this war. Donald Trump himself is a gusher of falsehoods, fabrications and fanciful flamboodle of all kinds. His latest move was to fire the Joe Biden-appointed academic who headed the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which reports estimates of employment in the U.S. economy.

Trump fired Erika McEntarfer for the crime of reporting employment figures that made his economic policies look bad or, as he had it, “concocting” them. McEntarfer’s job was hard in the best of times, but with Trump’s unprecedented tax, trade and immigration policies, getting numbers right even without p

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