A dark corner of Reddit shines light on how misinformation kills
I’ve been struggling to find the right way to highlight how relentlessly misinformation is killing us. I could say that another World War II would only be 60 percent as deadly for Americans as this misinformation-fueled pandemic. I could say that if the deceased victims of COVID-19 were their own state, they’d have a larger population than Wyoming, Vermont, or Alaska.
But these examples fall short in two important ways.
First, they …
A dark corner of Reddit shines light on how misinformation kills
