The Department of Truth

'The Department of Truth' confronts the instability of truth in a digitally saturated age. Here, information shifts like ground underfoot, unstable, relative, and prone to collapse. In real time, politics and power manipulate narratives, while AI devours itself in cycles of distortion and consequence.

What is our agency in this post-truth reality, where AI reshapes not just what we know, but how we decide what can be known? Should we be building library shelves rather than computer desks — preparing for digital collapse, whether dystopian or utopian, inevitable or already here?

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By combining realistic signage, an office and a detailed departmental website, this work suggest that a new Australian government authority has been setup to deal with misinformation, scams and fake online content. Set in the near future, The Department of Truth exists in a time w