Do Brexit and Donald Trump prove that we're living in an era of fact-free politics?

"A central promise in the UK’s official "Leave" campaign was that exiting the EU would allow the British government to redirect millions of pounds per week to bolster the National Health Service. Farage, who led a separate pro-Brexit campaign, never contested this claim. Then after the votes were tallied on Friday morning, he admitted that the official Leave campaign was full of it and denied ever having endorsed the idea — despite evidence to the contrary."

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Why is politics filled with so many pants-on-fire lies these days? - Vox