Since post-truth politics are primarily known through public truth statements in specific media contexts, it is especially studied as a media and communication studies phenomenon with particular forms of truth-telling: intentional rumors, lying, conspiracy theories, and fake news.
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Roberts defined it as "a political culture in which Post-truth politics have become almost entirely disconnected from policy ".
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Post-truth politics is a subset of the broader term post-truth, whose use precedes the recent focus on political events.
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In terms of entertainment, scholars such as Corner and Pels and Harsin argue that citizens' orientations towards Post-truth politics are dispositions formed first as audiences in relation to entertainment forms such as reality television, which can be shown to be transposable to their evaluation of political communication.
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In modern professionalization of political communication, a defining trait of post-truth politics is that campaigners continue to repeat their talking points, even when media outlets, experts in the field in question, and others provide proof that contradicts these talking points.
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Post-truth politics has been applied as a political buzzword to a wide range of political cultures; one article in The Economist identified post-truth politics in Austria, Germany, North Korea, Poland, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Post-truth politics have been discussed in Indonesia since at least 2016.
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Since this event, post-truth politics have played a more significant role in political campaigns, as well as interactions between Indonesian voters.
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An early use of the phrase in British Post-truth politics was in March 2012 by Scottish Labour MSP Iain Gray in criticising the difference between Scottish National Party's claims and official statistics.
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Post-truth politics has been retroactively identified in the lead-up to the Iraq War, particularly after the Chilcot Report, published in July 2016, concluded that Tony Blair misrepresented military intelligence to support his view that Iraq's chemical weapons program was advanced.
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