The paradox of AI poetry, the quest for non-toxic social media, the deception of seductive forecasting and more in this week’s #TheEdit.

• Hot air. A university-backed interactive database and visualisation tool highlighting the volume of online misinformation surrounding climate change – Tortoise
• Predictions aren’t always about the future. Accuracy is hard work and rewarded late. It’s much easier to make a forecast seem entertaining, and some forecasts are deliberately designed to manipulate – Financial Times
• A love-hate letter to technology. Vauhini Vara’s new memoir critiques the web in a novel way, turning its products into a kind of poetry – The Atlantic
• Bluesky’s quest to build non-toxic social media. Bluesky’s CEO, Jay Graber, says that she wants to give power back to the user – The New Yorker
• What are the newly updated B Corp standards? B Lab has upped its B Corp standards, responding to critics who argued it wasn’t demanding enough from businesses. Discover how the changes might impact your business – The Beautiful Truth
• What actors know. It’s a paradox of our age that we have never been more connected, nor ever more alone. Yet, acting is an ancient and intrinsically human way to establish vibrant connections with one another – Aeon
• The superorganism. Story fuses individual human brains together into one superorganism – The Beautiful Truth