Scroll through Trump’s new covid website — and have your mind blown
A new website launched last week, covid.gov, and even though an editor once told me that writers should never instruct readers to “drop everything and look at this,” because then readers might never return to their articles, I must now ask you to drop everything and go look at this, and I will wait for you.
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I think we now all know why we are here. We have come to discuss:
“LAB LEAK: THE TRUE ORIGINS OF Covid-19.”
Please note, first, that “Covid-19” is written in the cursive of a wedding invitation while the rest of the words are written in the block type of a JAMES PATTERSON NOVEL. The font fades toward the bottom of each word, in a way you are most accustomed to seeing not on government websites, where the goal is legibility, but rather on airport fiction, where the goal is conveying that the identical twin is a serial killer.
Related Knowledge Center: Information integrity
In an increasingly fractured media landscape, truth has been a casualty in the public discussion. Coverage has been warped by the business needs of struggling news organizations, and a significant segment of the public relies on bad-faith outlets that are little more than propagandists. While fact-checking has become routine, some organizations are exploring other ways to combat the trends. And misinformation spewed by AI-driven chatbots has become more of a feature than simply a bug.
Fact-checking and its detractors