Why falsehoods on Twitter spread faster than truth
Since the platform is perfectly designed for what Heidegger called "idle talk", it's no surprise that untruths proliferate there.
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Aaron James Wendland
Aaron James Wendland is Vision Fellow in Public Philosophy at King’s College London and edits the Agora philosophy series for the New Statesman.
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