Technology companies drove the survivors into a mindset of engineered efficiency—the belief that data tells you everything of value. “Just like the tech companies, journalism has come to fetishize data. And this data has come to corrupt journalism,” Franklin Foer writes in World Without Mind. “Once journalists come to know what works, which stories

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I ended up cutting this from recent writing, and replacing it with just a few sentences that allude to it, but I enjoyed it enough that I'm sharing it here. Re: the stance of moralism toward the internet, especially amongst self-proclaimed leftists and public intellectuals. https://t.co/Yb5Iqpn5dh