Let’s talk about bullshit. If you consume the news at all these days it’s likely that most of what you see on a daily basis is bullshit. Some of it pretty obviously so. When one prominent former cable TV host tells another that he called the Israeli government to demand an end to attacks on him by American Twitter users, you probably know that’s bullshit without us needing to tell you—not least because, if you’ve been reading The Scroll, Tablet’s daily afternoon news digest, over the past few years, you know the idea the Israelis could direct a successful campaign on American social media is bullshit on par with “Joe Biden is as sharp as a tack behind closed doors.” Sometimes the bullshit isn’t quite so obvious. Sometimes it’s a story—“reported” and “fact-checked” by Pulitzer-winning newspapers—in which the facts are true but presented so as to create an impression that is mostly if not entirely false. Sometimes it’s an utterly trivial story hyped as an event of world-historical importance, or an important story dismissed as the preserve of cranks or simply ignored altogether. Sometimes it’s “news” that is in fact a foreign information operation, or a domestic information operation, or a domestic information operation disguised as news about a foreign information operation (hello, Russiagate). Sometimes it will be a fake story from the left that shadowy Zionist financiers are trying to drag the United States into another war. Sometimes it will be a fake story from the right that shadowy Zionist financiers are trying to drag the United States into another war. Social media is not much better in the best of times, and lately, it’s been getting worse and worse. The point of The Scroll, according to our internal strategy document, is to give you, our readers, “a skeptical and discerning account of world events delivered by writers who they specifically expect to filter out overhyped media bullshit, expose the material interests and power politics behind PR language and ideological posturing, and cut through to underlying realities.” And for the past few years, we’ve been doing that, every day of the week, for free.