| Summary/Abstract |
IN RECENT YEARS, an interest in the post-truth phenomenon has spread far and wide into political and other social sciences. On the whole, it is related to the process of psychological impact on human consciousness and subconsciousness, in the course of which people might radically change their opinion about any important social or political event that has already taken place. This happens under an impact of reinterpretation of previously disregarded events or their details. The public is offered interpretations that occupy information space and penetrate public consciousness; they are accompanied by fakes disguised as verified news, or inventions and rumors presented as versions, opinions of respected "experts," "fashionable" bloggers and journalists entrusted with the task of planting "post-truths" in the collective mind of target audiences and individual minds of each of its members. The collective opinion changed by "post-truth" might change individual positions of citizens.
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