Lying is the force that is most diametrically opposed to journalism. So why has it been so hard for journalists to combat it? 

Earlier this month, Brian was asked to deliver a treatise on this question to an audience of journalists, and writing it took him in a bunch of directions he didn’t expect: from a school playground to ancient religious texts to Alex Jones. Afterwards, people kept saying that we had to run it on Question Everything. Here it is. 

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