Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
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In the early, frightening months of the COVID-19 pandemic, when information was shifting by the hour and uncertainty filled every newsfeed, a strange thing happened: posts and videos promoting natural remedies for the virus—steam inhalation, ginger, garlic, vitamin C megadoses—began to spread like wildfire. Some were harmless; some were dangerous.…
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The American midterm elections have always been a high-stakes ritual, but this year the drama is playing out on a new kind of stage. Alongside the television pundits and the endless polling numbers, there are now digital prediction markets—platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi—where anyone with a credit card can wager real money on who will win a Senate seat, control the House, or take a state’s electoral votes. It feels like a game, a futuristic way of engaging with democracy, but it is also something much more serious. The percentages that flash across these platforms look like authoritative data, and…
Whenever a political party is about to hold a big gathering, the first battle is no longer on the ground; it is on the phone screen. In the days before the INDIA bloc’s “Chalo Dilli” rally at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan on November 1, that digital battlefield was especially intense. The opposition alliance had called supporters from across the country to the capital, and the expectation was huge—organizers said they were aiming for nearly a million people. At the same time, the Delhi Police had announced plans to manage the event with a capacity of only about 50,000 inside the Maidan,…
