How Much Does Ukraine Really Matter to the U.S.?
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Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, many countries have passed or invoked laws against misinformation. In the United States, content distributors like Spotify and social-media platforms like Twitter are under pressure from one faction to take action against medical misinformation and from another faction to stay viewpoint-neutral and allow all perspectives to be aired.
What should be done about medical misinformation, if anything? Why? What actions would do more harm than good? Why? Who should decide what constitutes medical misinformation? How? If you’re conflicted about this matter, explain why and what you see as the toughest cases.
Email your answers to conor@theatlantic.com—I’ll publish a selection of them in Friday’s newsletter.
Conversations of Note
As Russian forces gather on the border with Ukraine, the world is preparing for the possibility of an invasion––and debating how Western powers ought to react to Vladimir Putin’s behavior.
Anne Applebaum argues that the scale of Putin’s ambitions is tremendous:
He wants to destabilize Ukraine, frighten Ukraine. He wants Ukrainian democracy to fail. He wants the Ukrainian economy to collapse. He wants foreign investors to flee. He wants his
