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One upshot was Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which to this day insulates social media from legal liability for the content — however incendiary or scurrilous — that users post.

"We've seen a massive upshot in young people especially drinking Guinness," he says.

“The upshot of it is, this movie was so absolutely perfect that I couldn’t say no to it,” I tell Culkin, paraphrasing his pitch.

And what’s the point, when the upshot always seems to be the same: We have no idea if the race really is this tight, but we’d like to panic you anyway.

For him, the upshot of the election will be either a series of criminal prosecutions likely to result in incarceration or a few legal nuisances that he can largely or completely dismiss.