On Facebook, a lie can seem as convincing to some as an article from SPIEGEL or the Washington Post. That's a problem. I can then like it and like it again and start creating my own media universe, both for me and for my friends, and so we become more and more fenced off from one another.
David RemnickVladimir Putin wants practical things, like the end of economic sanctions, but he also wants far greater sway in Europe and in the overall ideological trends of the world.
David RemnickI don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.
David RemnickEverybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I'm ruthlessly efficient with my time.
David Remnick