Bannon, "éminence grise", with Kellyanne Conway as Trump meets with cybersecurity experts. Ron Sachs/DPA/PA Images. All rights reserved.When Kellyanne Conway contested the attendance figures at Donald Trump’s inauguration with what she called “alternative facts” at a Meet the Press event on January 22, 2017, it joined Trump’s use of conspiracy theories and complaints about 'fake news' to create a constellation of disinformation that has become his modus operandi. However, while the idea of 'alternative facts' has been met with a mix of mockery and condemnation I would like to suggest that we shouldn’t dismiss the idea too easily because 'alternative facts' have genuinely important work to do.
