The truth regimes that were in force, although always contested, during the 20th century are being rapidly undermined by different factors: the growing influence of corporate interests in some branches of science, the reconfiguration of the public sphere by digital networks, which are also governed by oligopolistic profit logics, and the exploitation of the loss of shared referents by political interest groups, especially of the extreme right. The pandemic has accelerated this process, which threatens the possibilities of building democratic solutions to the multiple and civilizational crisis that human societies are experiencing