#LancetLetter@trishgreenhalgh: If you cna smell the garlic on someones breath you can be infected by them. We need to think about ventilation
#LancetLetter@richardhorton1: Young people are more likely to become sick than to die from covid. If we reach 100,000 a day that will be 10,000 a day with Long Covid
#TDC19@herbkim: Halvor Vislie came to our attention by making videos that simulated storm surges
#TDC19@tfguniverse: My kids spend all their media viewing time on youtube - I grew up with Pippi Longstocking who rode into a small Swedish village on a horse with a monkey on her shoulder
May 11, 2019 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
I'm sure @RobBurl and @afneil are patting each other on the back after their interview with that American racist yesterday took off on twitter, and that the BBC more broadly are defending their "news judgment" in coincidentally wallpapering the schedules with Farage
But what they are doing is not just a breach of the Reithian legacy, but something much more sinister. The systemic problem with algorithmic suggestion led media is that in chasing 'engagement' it amplifies extremism.