Casey Newton shares this item in Platformer (often closed access, but this item appears to be open) describing how he cause a scammer trying to promote a story about a corporation squeezing its delivery employees. As he notes, this is the sort of information he would have accepted without question in the past, but which now requires extra scrutiny because it has become so easy to create. He was able to catch it this time - but what about next time? "That future was worrisome enough when it was a looming cloud on the horizon. It feels differently now that real people are messaging it to me over Signal." Yeah. There's no short-term fix for this. "If there's anything that gives me comfort here, it's that old journalism-school maxims can still help us see through the scams. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. If your mother says she loves you, check it out. Always get a second source."
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