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    • While social media platforms did not create QAnon, they helped it go mainstream via recommendation systems designed to prioritize engagement (Charlie Warzel/New York Times)

    Charlie Warzel / New York Times: While social media platforms did not create QAnon, they helped it go mainstream via recommendation systems designed to prioritize engagement  —  A supporter of the dangerous conspiracy theory is most likely headed to Congress.  The social media platforms have some soul-searching to do. While social media platforms did not

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    • To secure its supply chains and information networks against Chinese attacks, the US needs to reindustrialize and develop a skilled and innovative workforce (Jacob Helberg/Foreign Policy)

    Jacob Helberg / Foreign Policy: To secure its supply chains and information networks against Chinese attacks, the US needs to reindustrialize and develop a skilled and innovative workforce  —  In 2011, then-President Barack Obama attended an intimate dinner in Silicon Valley.  At one point, he turned to the man on his left. To secure its

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    • Attack of the gaiters

    A jogger wears a gaiter as a mask in April, 2020. | Photo by Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images A minor face-covering controversy broke out this week, thanks to a widely-misinterpreted paper involving masks, lasers, and spit. The study, which came out in Science Advances on August 7, was pretty straightforward. It laid

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    • A look at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, formed by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube in 2017, whose database helps fight misinformation (Chloe Hadavas/Slate)

    Chloe Hadavas / Slate: A look at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, formed by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube in 2017, whose database helps fight misinformation  —  Last October, a neo-Nazi livestreamed his attack on a synagogue in Halle, Germany.  The video of the shooting, which killed two people … A look at

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