Beyond Selidor

This is a good post. My rule of thumb is to trust long-standing free press outlets and trusted institutional accounts; and even then, trust only that they are reporting in good faith and might not be up-to-date because everything moves so fast. (I feel like I should add a few more caveats - see clickbait titles favoured by every newspaper these days, etc.)

With these in mind, it's sad to see how Putin's Covid disinformation campaign is working now. I have seen too many tweets from people saying they don't know what to belief because they've lost their trust in media and the state - if they lie about the vaccine, why not everything else? Add to this the political point-scoring (which was forgotten for five minutes) and Twitter is a mess. - OTOH, I'm also seeing an encouraging amount of pusback against the disinfo as well measured takes.