In Colombia, a WhatsApp Campaign against Posverdad

In 2016, the world was introduced to the term “fake news” and the phenomenon of the “post-truth” era — or, as we in the Spanish-speaking world call it, posverdad. Commentators used these terms to try to explain how repeated lies and half-truths, amplified by the social media echo-chamber and the inundation of the 24-hour news cycle, helped to create unlikely political developments, such as the British electorate’s voting to leave the European Union and the victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election.