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A new survey finds that social media platforms are damaging democracy by enabling the rapid spread of rumors and misinformation. The findings point to unchecked falsehoods circulating online as a key threat to informed public debate and trust in democratic institutions, renewing debate over platform accountability and content moderation.

A gamer bought a secondhand AMD processor cheaply, only to find themselves banned from a game upon installing it. The chip's prior owner had apparently been banned for cheating, and the ban was tied to the hardware itself, so the punishment followed the CPU to its new, innocent owner. Commenters are calling it a cautionary tale about buying used PC parts, noting that hardware bans can penalize resellers and secondhand buyers with no connection to the original cheating.