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Sinan Aral is the Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and author of The Hype Machine about how social media disrupts our world. They claimed that a study my colleagues Deb Roy…
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Remember when we were assured that the Wuhan Institute of Virology "lab leak" theory for the origin of COVID-19 was "conspiratorial nonsense" and that we should "believe scientists" like Peter
Remember when we were assured that the Wuhan Institute of Virology "lab leak" theory for the origin of COVID-19 was "conspiratorial nonsense" and that we should "believe scientists" like Peter