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Anne Applebaum talks with Nicola Galombik about increasing access to future work for young people in South Africa.
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Truth in the Time of Deepfakes
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Galileo tried to teach us that adding more and more layers to a system intended to avert disaster often makes catastrophe all the more likely to happen. His basic lesson…