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Information crisis: Gavin Waterston on social media
‘This could become a corporate spiritual witness.’
by Gavin Waterston
4th September 2026
Naomi Alderman’s Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today describes our time as an ‘information crisis’, comparable with the upheavals that followed the invention of the printing press. The speed and abundance of information – and disinformation – have transformed how we interact with one another, and society struggles to withstand the change. For Friends, this raises a spiritual question: how do we seek truth, unity and love in an environment that so readily promotes division?
