Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder

Posted Friday, August 23, 2019 7:57 am

Claire Wardle | Scientific American

As someone who studies the impact of misinformation on society, I often wish the young entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley who enabled communication at speed had been forced to run a 9/11 scenario with their technologies before they deployed them commercially.

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