ABSTRACT
This chapter turns to the solutions currently proposed to solve the post-truth crisis across the world. It looks into the different visions of how democracy can be “saved.” Doing so, it argues that calls have first of all focused on restricting the boundaries of debate through legislation, surveillance, and policing. Second, solutions have aimed at re-establishing the position of traditionally privileged truth-speaking fields, namely politics, science, and journalism. The idea has been to once again turn these “pillars of truth” into stable grounds for democracy. Third, some authors have argued for interventions premised on “immunizing” citizens, i.e., measures that induce small doses of misinformation to create fake news “antibodies” in the population. Fourth, technology has also been called upon as simultaneously a cause of and remedy for overcoming the post-truth conundrum. The chapter ends by arguing that, while these solutions point in different directions, they all share a certain set of underlying premises: they all take the crisis of democracy to be principally about truth. This means that a link between rationality and democracy is presupposed in the current interventions seeking to overcome the contemporary democratic crisis.
