Defining Information – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

In a follow-up to Zero Trust Information, exploring the four types of information and how their value changes with time.

Defining Information – Stratechery by Ben Thompson Skip to content Defining Information Tuesday, March 17, 2020 Last Wednesday morning, I wrote a piece called Zero Trust Information , where I lauded social media generally and Twitter specifically for functioning as an early warning system for the impending coronavirus crisis. For weeks a motley collection of folks — some epidemiologists and public health officials, but many not — had been sounding the alarm on Twitter about the exponential spread of SARS-CoV-2 and the impact the resultant COVID-19 disease would have on health care system

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