I profiled (posthumously) Edgar Maddison Welch, the Pizzagate shooter. Been 10 years since the shooting and he’s felt to me like one of the first in a string of online conspiracy meets real world violence events that’s now more a common and a very American tragedy www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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the early web made these delusions easier to get obsessed with. easier to access. that's protected by free speech and of course, some stuff that is not covered in the mainstream is true. you can't control it.
and if @masnick.com is correct that we can't now legally limit the algos etc cause they are the corporations' speech too, then we can at least support the development of and encourage the use of alternatives. not put stuff on YT or X etc.