| Increasingly, our networks seem to be steering our history in ways we don’t like and can’t control.  Illustration by Josie Norton “Call it info-determinism: the belief that the ways that information flows through the world are actually a kind of web in which we’re ensnared,” Joshua Rothman writes. The Internet can make it feel as though information is endless, and access can make everyone feel like an expert—or, at least, an expert subreddit debater. The sense that there is always more to know undermines the authority of an article or an institution, as does the thriving trade, among those debaters, in the disassembly of ideas. Rothman’s column, Open Questions, unpacks open-ended queries each week. Today, he considers: What is information? Does it matter if it’s true? Are we trapped? Support The New Yorker’s award-winning journalism. Subscribe today » | 
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