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At the heart of this transformation, perhaps, is the reality that news media at scale may have been a collective fiction. In the platform age, consumers create their own content mixes, usually based on trusted or affinity-aligned sources. The very notion of a newsroom —a one-stop, always-on bodega of information spanning politics to sports, manned ... See more

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The worldview of the Gamergaters and Pizzagaters was actualized and to a large extent vindicated in the 2016 election—an event that strongly suggested that the worst things about the internet were now determining, rather than reflecting, the worst things about offline life.

Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

In traditional journalism, there are strong incentives to act maliciously. Journalists are incentivized to optimize for views and clicks. The answer is not to reform the industry. We can change media through radical decentralization. Everyone becomes a journalist. Each person writes about their local issues or areas of expertise

Tim Ferriss • #506: Balaji Srinivasan on The Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum, How to Become Noncancelable, the Path to Personal Freedom and Wealth in a New World, the Changing Landscape of Warfare, and More

Hurley’s normal guy vibes didn’t always play well at Google, where some degree of world-conquering narcissism was required.

Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe

And yet of all the takes that landed over the weekend, none stuck with me more than this post from comedian Josh Gondelman. “I know people are saying not to spread conspiracy theories right now,” he wrote on Saturday in a viral X post, “but I would like to read them.”

Gondelman’s post, which has received nearly 70,000 likes, resonated because it spe... See more

Casey Newton • Start the Conversation

whether it was a Nazi collaborator serving as the paper’s Berlin bureau chief at the most sensitive moment in modern history, a communist propagandist helping to midwife American recognition of the Soviet Union, the creation of a jihadist boy-martyr almost out of thin air, the cover-up of radiation sickness resulting from the use of nuclear weapons

Ashley Rindsberg • The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History

The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again

Anil Dash rollingstone.com

human tastemakers,

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

We’ve been told — and taught — that mediums are neutral and content is king. You can’t say anything about “television.” The question is whether you’re watching “The Kardashians” or “The Sopranos,” “Sesame Street” or “Paw Patrol.” To say you read “books” is to say nothing at all: Are you imbibing potboilers or histories of 18th-century Europe? Twitt... See more