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WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING?
A missile strike in Poland led to a spate of fake news and panic-mongering about World War III on Twitter. It’s not hard to imagine how much worse this could get.
Tyler Austin Harper is an assistant professor of Environmental Studies at Bates College. His research focuses on human extinction, climate change, and science fiction. His writing on politics, culture, and the environment has appeared in Mother Jones, Slate, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
A missile strike in Poland led to a spate of fake news and panic-mongering about World War III on Twitter. It’s not hard to imagine how much worse this could get.
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