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Tyra Banks and will.i.am and all the rest of the world’s other most influential people were treated to hastily prepared remarks delivered by a not entirely sober FTX employee named Adam Jacobs, who was bewildered to be standing in for Sam. “I’m like, What is the head of payments doing giving this speech?” said Jacobs. “Why am I drinking with
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Brock has cultivated an impressive body of liberal megadonors and assembled an eclectic collection of no fewer than thirty smear-related projects, most notably his flagship “media watchdog,” Media Matters. This collection of groups was cited to me by nearly every Democrat and Republican operative I interviewed as the most ubiquitous and successful
... See moreSharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
By 1988 the Justice Department possessed ninety-three trained “Obscenity / Child Exploitation Specialists,” whose very title indicated the department’s eagerness to conflate child pornography and abuse with the mainstream adult porn industry. The Justice Department also went well beyond the conclusions of the Meese Commission in its discussion of
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Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts
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But Trump’s con artistry runs much deeper than false advertising. He has always wrung out his profits through exploitation and abuse. In the seventies, he was sued by Richard Nixon’s Department of Justice after crafting policies to keep black people out of his housing projects. In 1980, he hired two hundred undocumented Polish immigrants to clear
... See moreJia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
the journalistic errors examined in this book—the misreporting, fabrications, and distortions—were never the product of simple error. Nor were they solely the result of rogue reporters who took their journalistic fates into their own hands. Rather, they were the byproduct of a particular kind of system, a truth-producing machine that though built
... See moreAshley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
“BuzzFeed 101. He was just kind of optimizing.” Just as we’d been optimizing videos and posts for Facebook and Twitter, he’d been doing the same to himself. “His politics have been guided by platform metrics,” reflected a top BuzzFeed producer, Andrew Gauthier. Gionet’s colleagues had abided by some unspoken boundaries: factual accuracy, liberal
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