Situation reporter: Evan Gershkovich’s detention
Economist Podcasts6 Huhti 2023

Situation reporter: Evan Gershkovich’s detention

Russia’s arrest of a Wall Street Journal correspondent is heading toward a diplomatic crisis—and will certainly chill foreign reporting in the country. It is startlingly easy to siphon money out of America’s social-welfare programmes, but devilishly difficult to thwart those efforts without threatening needy families. And ChatGPT may make things up, but it does so fluently in more than 50 languages.


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