Observations The rise of the fact-checker in an age of disinformation As president Donald Trump made more than 30,500 false or misleading claims; and the Washington Post tracked every one. By Dorian Lynskey
Film Mr Jones: how a Welsh journalist exposed the horror of Stalin’s Ukraine famines By Dorian Lynskey
Politics Why vaccine hesitancy is a giant threat to global health and the conspiracy theory of our times By Dorian Lynskey
Media Want to win an argument online? Don’t give away your political position upfront By Dorian Lynskey
How Peterson, Shapiro and the online right would rather attack the left than debate them A sort of intellectual cage-fighting in which the aim is to DISMANTLE, DESTROY and OBLITERATE your opponent. By Dorian Lynskey
The online right wants politics out of comics, but they have always been bastions of liberal thinking Even as a child, I got the message that you shouldn’t stigmatise anyone for being different, even if that… By Dorian Lynskey
When musicians die young today online mourning turns their deaths into a whodunnit If social media had existed, I’m sure I would have immediately heard conspiracy theories about how Kurt Cobain died. By Dorian Lynskey
From Martian invasions to Andrew Marr in Bodyguard, we are most credulous when reality feels unreal If you imagine an online equivalent to Orson Welles’s The War of the Worlds in 2018, there’s no reason… By Dorian Lynskey
Morrissey, so much to answer for There are no excuses left for the former Smiths frontman’s repugnant political views. By Dorian Lynskey
The joy of teenage girls is the heart of pop – we can’t let the Manchester attack change that What happened in Manchester feels horribly new because it targeted young girls in one of the places where young… By Dorian Lynskey
How James O’Brien became the conscience of liberal Britain Talk radio has long been dominated by right-wing blowhards. But LBC's James O'Brien can make tolerance go viral. How? By Dorian Lynskey
Prince’s death rips a hole in the fabric of popular music He was the best at what he did, and he did everything. By Dorian Lynskey