reality itself as ideological. 1 If, before, we used the tools of reality to compare the facts, today it becomes extremely difficult to do so, not only because there is an ideologized (and of course, polarized) version of reality but also because our reality is full of facts that are not true and that have been artificially created to support an ideologized version of reality. We are in a world that goes beyond deliberate falsehood or lies as conceived by the critical theory of Hannah Arendt, who defined: “The deliberate falsehood deals with contingent facts; that is, with matters that carry no inherent truth within themselves, no necessity to be as they are. Factual truths are never compellingly true. The historian knows how vulnerable is the whole texture of facts in which we spend our daily life; it is always in danger of being perforated by single lies or torn to shreds by the organized lying of groups, nations, or classes, or denied and distorted, often carefully covered up by reams of falsehoods or simply allowed to fall into oblivion.” 2 For Žižek, the problem with this ideologized version of reality is that it goes beyond deliberate falsehood or simple lies. The individual is fully aware they are transforming the outside world through their actions. That is why we speak of cynicism as the replacement for morality in the actions of the post-truth world. Fake news or the use of pseudo science end up becoming the tools to build this new version. The obvious, conscious, and deliberate lie finds a central role, where it is not condemned, but rather amplified, shared and “viralized." In the world of Arendt and critical theory, massive technological applications did not yet exist, nor did social networks. Deliberate falsehood was constructed in a more uniform and less "collaborative" process. Today, in the world of Twitter, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram, reality is built collaboratively, with the different users contributing to “piercing” Žižek, Slavoj. The Parallax View. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006Žižek, Slavoj. “Between Symbolic Fiction and Fantasmatic Spectre: Towards a LacanianTheory of Ideology”, en R. Buttler and S. Stephens (Eds.). SlavojŽižek, Interrogating the Real. LondonandNew York: Continuum, 2005:249-270. Žižek, Slavoj. “Introduction”, en S. Žižek (Ed.). Mapping Ideology. London and New York:Verso, 1994:1-33. Žižek, Slavoj.The Sublime Object of Ideology.London: Verso, 1989. 2 Arendt, Hannah (1972). Crises of the Republic; lying in politics, civil disobedience on violence, thoughts on politics, and revolution. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. pp. 4 1