The internet is bad. Everyone log off: The Reddit discussion board that has been at the center of frenzied stock trading in GameStop has become a squabbling mess among moderators over how to capitalize on their fame, my colleagues reported. A related plea from Paul Krugman: Please stop falling for fake populism.
Misinformation to trash other countries’ vaccines: Russian news outlets connected to election disinformation campaigns in the United States have set their sites on a new target: convincing Mexico and other Spanish-speaking countries that the Russian coronavirus vaccine works better than its American competitors, my colleagues reported.
The data harvesting is out of control, example infinity: My Opinion colleagues got access to about 100,000 location data points collected from people’s smartphones at the time of January’s mob attack on the Capitol. The granular detail of people’s movements are another example of “a surveillance economy that monetizes the movements of the righteous and the wicked alike,” Charlie Warzel and Stuart A. Thompson wrote.
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