Inside a quirky indie publisher’s turn to Covid trutherism

Selling the story of disinformation.

As the pandemic rages across the country, one team of fact-checkers contends with a post-truth dystopia.

The company’s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can’t fix the problem.

A viral video in which Dr. Annie Bukacek questions the severity of COVID-19 has given anti-lockdown activists across the country a sense of validation.