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What the insurrection taught us about the internet
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What the insurrection taught us about the internet

Our problems are bigger than social networks. PLUS: WhatsApp hits the panic button

Casey Newton
Jan 20, 2021
The National Mall on Tuesday as preparations for Inauguration Day unfold. (Susan Walsh-Pool / Getty Images)
The National Mall on Tuesday as preparations for Inauguration Day unfold. (Susan Walsh-Pool / Getty Images)

Tomorrow, at long last, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the president of the United States. The degree to which it still feels like I am tempting fate by writing those words speaks to how fraught the moment is. In the wake of the calamitous Trump …

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