Just how sick and poisoned has our information environment become? Here's an example that's made my Twitter mentions unreadable. (1/5)
Look at the replies to this 10 year old tweet about visiting a well-known bar on Manhattan's LES. (The address is even included in the tweet, which anyone can Google!) I used to share my location via Foursquare – can't anymore.
Today, people suddenly started replying to that tweet, falsely claiming I'm part of a Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy. That's not only completely factually incorrect and dangerous, it's nuts. And this insanity happens to all sorts of people, all the time. (3/5)
Crazy memes falsely claiming I rode on Epstein's jet. Bots and anonymous commenters using words I don't even want to repeat. Normal people shrug and say, "that's just social media." No, it's ANTIsocial and sick. (4/5) 
While we report on this daily, and I know other people have it much worse, today's flood of lies reminds me that these platforms are broken beyond belief. Or maybe we're broken. And not much is being done about it. (5/5)
