fake news /maxbellschool/taxonomy/term/2772/all en We are in a crisis of knowledge - and it couldn’t have happened at a worse time | The Globe and Mail /maxbellschool/channels/news/we-are-crisis-knowledge-and-it-couldnt-have-happened-worse-time-globe-and-mail-352208 <p>October 20, 2023 | This opinion piece by <a href="/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/taylor-owen">Taylor Owen</a> talks about the reasoning behind why he decided to take a break from X, formerly Twitter, a platform he has been using as a gateway to information for over a decade. </p> <p>He said "the platform is now broken. Where it once filtered valuable information about the world in a timely manner, it is now calibrated to anger and extremes under the ownership of a spiteful billionaire clearly caught in an ideological rabbit hole."</p> Tue, 24 Oct 2023 17:31:34 +0000 kibel.aker@mcgill.ca 3091 at /maxbellschool