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today, at the new yorker, my essay on adam friedland: https://t.co/eROMv0Ytqd
human tastemakers,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Jia Tolentino on the Internet’s Endless Stage | Crooked Media
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The Vox Doctrine
Media companies are profiting from a crisis they helped create. Vox/Recode dismissed the pandemic, scorned precautions, told you not to wear masks, even attacked philanthrophy!
Now they're setting traffic records.
Need citizen journalism, not... See more
Pop culture soothes and placates with a steady series of uncomplicated morality tales in predigested narratives where nothing ever really changes and so there’s no worry that the storyline will move in a way that hurts your feelings. Crowdsourced “content” is built on ephemerality.
Freddie DeBoer • You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.
How could the great American newspaper, whose standards for excellence are known around the world, have reported the very opposite of what we now consider to be an unassailable fact, an idea fundamental to our understanding of the war—that Germany invaded Poland as the opening salvo of Hitler’s scheme to conquer Europe?
Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
Our democratic habits have been killed off by an internet kleptocracy that profits from disinformation, polarization, and rage. Our writers explain how we fix that.
With the wholesale transfer of so much entertainment, social interaction, education, commerce, and politics from the real world to the virtual world—a... See more
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But an unbounded information landscape is not an unalloyed good. Because social media does not favor accuracy or balance or diversity. It favors clicks. The more engaging and enraging the content, the more clicks it receives.