The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current Affairs

Right now, we’re either witnessing a golden age of expertise or a crisis of expertise, depending on who you ask. It’s undeniable that technology has democratized access to high-quality information, data, and tools for research, creation, and distribution.

But if the facts were elusive, the digital world had transmitted half-truths and lies at a speed and scale that would have been unimaginable even a decade earlier. The patient work of journalists to take time to discover what actually happened was buried in the avalanche of rumour – and then invisible except to the relatively tiny minority who stil

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More recently, new sites like Sci-Hub and LibGen have achieved far faster and more complete results by playing outside the rules and essentially making every academic paper in the world free of charge, to anyone, at any time, in any country – including poor people in poor places without access to expensive journal subscriptions. Let's call this the... See more