September 29, 2020 – ON SUNDAY, PRESIDENT TRUMP DEMANDED THAT JOE BIDEN, his Democratic opponent, take a drug test ahead of (or just after) their first debate, which is tonight. “His Debate performances have been record setting UNEVEN, to put it mildly,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Only drugs could have caused this discrepancy???” Biden initially declined […]
Jon Allsop, Columbia Journalism Review
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The epistemic tragedy of coronavirus misinformation
July 30, 2020 – Yesterday, four of the most powerful men on earth—Mark Zuckerberg, of Facebook; Jeff Bezos, of Amazon; Tim Cook, of Apple; and Sundar Pichai, of Alphabet, which owns Google and YouTube—were dragged to Capitol Hill (well, a videoconference) to answer to a subcommittee of the House of Representatives. As well as allegations […]