Day 1,674: weigh in, Provocateur

The people still weighing in on the public networks, meanwhile, are disproportionately male and likely to describe themselves as very left- or right-wing: bores, in plain English.

Provocateurs like Mr Trump or Nayib Bukele, the favourite in this week’s election in El Salvador, stand to benefit, as do misinformation merchants.

Artwork of the day 
Exit from Weighing
Edgar Degas
Original Title: La Sortie du pesage
Date: 1866
Style: Impressionism
Genre: genre painting
Media: gouache,watercolor
Location: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Fenway Court), Boston, MA, US
Dimensions: 11 x 17 cm

Word of the day 
weigh in: to become involved in an argument or discussion in a forceful way:
Provocateur: a person who intentionally encourages people to do something illegal, usually so that they can be arrested:
favourite: the person or animal most people expect to win a race or competition:

Quote of the day
“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon