CHRIS ROPER: Truth runs aground as misinformation takes off
Dislodging fake news, once it’s been launched into the world, may be as painstaking — and boring — as digging a 400m container ship out of the sand alongside the Suez
01 April 2021 - 05:00
How about that ship, huh? At the time of writing this column, the world was still gripped by the saga of the Ever Given, a huge, 220,000t, 400m container ship that inadvertently blocked the Suez canal for six days, causing a logjam of tens of billions of dollars’ worth of global trade.
Well, perhaps not the whole world. Mainly those anxiously awaiting their Ikea flatpack furniture, 80 containers of tea trapped on 15 different ships, and a large variety of other goods that are indispensable to keeping the engine of capitalism ticking over smoothly...
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