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Enrique Dans

On the effects of technology and innovation on people, companies and society (writing in Spanish at enriquedans.com since 2003)

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Conspiracy Theories

IMAGE: An artificial intelligence chatbot debunking a conspiracy theorist claims and convincing him about the stupidity of his claims

How artificial intelligence is overcoming natural stupidity

IMAGE: A banner in a demonstration that says “System change, not climate change”

Why do so many of us continue denying the reality of climate change?

IMAGE: A graph depicting the evolution of excess mortality by registered party across time during the pandemic (Wallace, J., P. Goldsmith-Pinkham and J.L. Schwartz — NBER 2022)

Lessons from the pandemic: what happens when you politicize a virus

IMAGE: A caricature of Alex Jones giving a thumb up, drawn by DonkeyHotey

Freedom of speech and the Alex Jones case: has common sense prevailed?

If we want to put the pandemic behind us, we’ll have to crack down on vaccine disinformation

The internet of junk

We all know one: people we imagined to be intelligent, or at least not idiots, who suddenly enter a downward spiral of…

Parler, the last bastion of free speech on the internet (Hint: NO)

Coronavirus Christmas

Rather than saving Thanksgiving or Christmas, let’s save lives instead

Why do conspiracy theories flourish during crises?

From the information age to the reputation age

One of the best articles I have read recently is by the Italian philosopher…