Recently, I was talking to an acquaintance about the corona virus, COVID-19, and in talking to them I realized the amount of disinformation being spread is such, that even for someone like me, that tries to stay up to date, can impact you. The reason I found this to be scary was because we're talking about an issue that should have no partisanship or political party. And so, while I know there are incentives behind the curtains for disinformation, you would think they would be caught by people...

The internet age was supposed to be the age of information. The age in which all information known to humankind, could be shared democratically to all of humankind. It was the idea that someone that lived in the Congo could have the same access to information as someone in Paris, so long as they had a connection to the internet (albeit perhaps not as reliable). That was the promise with which it was launched. A naive and childish promise. Sure, the supporters will pipe up and claim that...