We’d heard the warnings. We’ve felt the foreboding. We’ve seen "Terminator 2," like, 400 times.
But this past week felt like a central turning point in online mendacity. One in which we watched as misinformation and Artificial Intelligence-gassed lies spread like… something fast, uncontainable, and irreversibly destructive.
With our neighbors staggering from unfathomable loss and many of us stuck indoors trying to avoid the toxic air, doom-scrolling has again regained its place as the #1 contactless sport.