This isn't a news article by The Globe and Mail, it's an opinion piece by Thomas Homer-Dixon published in The Globe and Mail's Op-Ed (Opposite the Editorial Pag

This isn't a news article by The Globe and Mail, it's an opinion piece by Thomas Homer-Dixon published in The Globe and Mail's Op-Ed (Opposite the Editorial Page) section. One of the biggest tragedies of misinformation online is the failure of readers to understand that opinion sections of all newspapers are meant to be garbage heaps, and not to have quality at all. They were originally blank parts of the newspaper they felt like filling up, and today they became so popular since all garbage heaps are popular (see: any fashion magazine, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, 4chan, etc), so they have to publish more and more and again, just publish whatever in there as if it were a forum, and try not to censor as long as it is written well. It's a "first-tier" internet comment section for a newspaper. When you read a newspaper, the proper way to read it is to throw the ads out first, then the opinion pages, then start reading. On the internet, you only see the opinion pages because that's all that gets shared because it's the most outrageous and most like a tabloid, then the header is seen and assumed they are the source. DISCLAIMER: Just because the header says "Hacker News" and "YCombinator" this comment does not represent the views of either group.