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‘Fake news’ is the best defence of the truth. No, I’m not being deliberately contrary, nor am I saying that growing awareness of misinformation is driving people to check their sources. Whilst [...]

Hyperstition – a term coined in the 1990s by the Cybernetic Cultures Research Unit (Ccru) – loosely defined, refers to ‘fictions that make themselves real.’ The term seems to have gained some [...]

In Walden, published in 1854, Henry Thoreau warned that the advent of worldwide communication networks might be filled with gossip and tittle-tattle. Referring to the electric telegraph he [...]