How not to be fooled by viral charts, Part 2

And yet of all the takes that landed over the weekend, none stuck with me more than this post from comedian Josh Gondelman. “I know people are saying not to spread conspiracy theories right now,” he wrote on Saturday in a viral X post, “but I would like to read them.”

Gondelman’s post, which has received nearly 70,000 likes, resonated because it spe... See more

EZRA KLEIN: One thing I like about analytics is that outside of the context of simply argue about the flaws of analytics, not having them allows you to bullshit yourself a lot. Allows you to bullshit yourself about whether or not people are reading you, what you’re really doing here, are you serving an audience. But then having them allows you... See more