“The facts don’t work”: the EU referendum campaign and the journalistic construction of ‘post-truth politics’
Arron Banks, the entrepreneur and largest donor to the Brexit campaign for the UK to leave the EU, has acknowledged in a newspaper interview that the successful campaign was predicated on generating an emotional response because ‘facts don’t work’ (Booth et al., 2016). The assertions made by the cam...
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2018
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| Online Access: | https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/3541/1/Collins%20-%20Facts%20don%27t%20work%20Proof_DCM_253.pdf |