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Politics by Proxy: What We Lose When Short Form Content Does Our Thinking for Us
Hayden explores how short-form explainers reshape political understanding, weaken our critical thinking and make misinformation harder to spot.
Preprint Articles in a Pandemic: Friend or Foe?
Research on COVID-19 is flooding preprint servers which publish findings before specialist scrutiny. Alex Bird asks whether this trend to make science instantly accessible could be magnifying the spread of disinformation during a time of global anxiety.