Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# tech
Trolls and bots are taking over social media by the millions. But we're not powerless. We can fight back with just a few easy steps.
# tech
Social media didn't change us for the worse, it merely enabled us to be as bad as we wanted to be and our lack of impulse control would allow.
# tech
If you're going to fight trolls, racists, and bigots with AI, you're going to need a much more comprehensive approach than a few neural networks...
# tech
If you thought fake news were bad, welcome to the hell that is fake fact checking.
# tech
Technology didn't build the post-truth world. We did. And we're the only ones capable of returning to reality.
# tech
WikiLeaks decided to use Twitter to settle scores, implying a heavy use of doxxing to silence its critics and detractors.
# oddities
The Daily Mail, an infamously fact-averse tabloid, decided to fire a preemptive shot against Snopes by smearing its founders and screaming bias.
# tech
Of all the platforms on which to debate and fact check, Twitter is almost purpose-built to be the absolute worst.
# health
Mommy blogs are filled with so much disinformation and scaremongering, they should be officially labeled an infectious disease vector.
# oddities
We figured out the recipe for conspiracy theorists. And, unwittingly, so has social media...