Gmail: false hope
Some naughty individual(s) spread a hoax on X that Gmail was to be shuttered in August. Google rushed to publicly confirm that, unfortunately for those of us deluged with Gmail spam, this was not the case and its users can continue to spew shit into our inboxes.
A communications expert told someone at MostTrustedInternationalNewsBroadcaster Towers—presumably not the BBC's disinformation and social media correspondent, otherwise it would be attributed—that the case exemplified the dangers of misinformation
. I'm no communications expert, but I'd hazard a guess that this was really an instance of disinformation rather than misinformation. The BBC's correspondent would know this if they were conversant with the murky world of social media disinformation.
Whilst social networks can act without responsibility and pump unfiltered, unverified information to their audiences, this Gmail incident won't be the last case we'll see.
Richard Bagnall, Co-Managing Partner & CEO Europe & Americas, CARMA (via BBC News droid)
Ironically, Google allows its users to pump unfiltered, unverified information—of the unsolicited commercial variety—to their audiences curated from harvested shitlists. At the same time, they make it difficult to send mail to Gmail recipients, in order to protect their security.
Screw Google, and anyone using Gmail.