"All of the checks our culture has on misinformation work too slowly to be effective. Mark Twain’s well-worn adage about lies traveling halfway around the world was born in an era where getting halfway around the world took a few days. Now everything is faster, burrows deeper, spreads more widely than Twain could have imagined. But our processes for containing or counteracting false information haven’t changed much. It’s fighting the coronavirus with leeches." -- Philip Bump in the Washington Post, reflecting on how "dangerous nonsense burrows deep, while accountability is still drafting subpoenas," the case of the "Pillow Guy" being a prime example.
