In WhatsApp world, everyone can hear you scream | Andrew Anthony

End-to-end encryption does not prevent wall-to-wall media coverage, as many prominent users have discovered to their cost

In modern communications, emails can be the digital equivalents of scribbled notes - all lower case and poor punctuation - or pedantic official documents, depending on context and recipients. But the key thing is that the prose is always deathless.

That's a rule that Tucker Carlson, a major Donald Trump supporter, is probably reckoning with at the moment. Disclosures of his emails in Dominion Voting Systems's $1.6bn (1.33bn) suit against Fox show the TV presenter admitting I hate him [Trump] passionately". Other emails show that Fox executives knew that Trump's claims about a stolen election were false but still aired them as if they were legitimate. Awkward.

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