Meta clearly perceives a great deal of political risk of being targeted. And the way Zuckerberg presented the announcements, and the timing, was obviously intended to play to a Republican audience.

The increase is heartening. But there’s also bad news, which is we now have to wonder if Republicans will only trust the system if they win.

Effective altruists reduce value to anything that can be quantified, but you very often cannot quantify the things we value the most.

People are pretty good at reasoning their way to believing that whatever they want to happen is the democratic outcome.