Saturday, November 04, 2017

Saturday Stories: Global Trolling, Pain Empires, and Fake News Towns

A non-bylined piece (at least not that I could see) in The Economist explaining how the world has been trolled and why social media is to blame.

Patrick Radden Keefe in The New Yorker on the Sackler family and their empire of pain.

Caitlin Dickerson in the New York Times on what fake news did to Twin Falls, Idaho

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