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Truth was fake; fake was true. And that’s when the problem suddenly snapped into focus. Throughout recent centuries anyone growing up in a western democracy had believed that it was necessary to have facts. Without facts, societies could be extremely dark places. Facts were essential to informed debates, to progress, to coherence, to justice.
Alan Rusbridger • Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
The other problem with media comes from the new subscription business model they implemented. With an increasing polarization, media outlets must stay in their political leaning. If they don’t, they face a massive loss of subscriptions. An example of this happened recently with the NYT. By publishing “Send in the Troops,” the company faced one of... See more
Mehdi Yacoubi • It’s Time For a Media Revolution: The GitHub Model of Truth
What is needed, Citarella’s strategy suggests, is an understanding of a kind of post-internet politics, where, like it or not, online life is embraced as part and parcel of how modern belief systems are formed.
The Leftist Podcaster Who Studies Online Radicalization
In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. But the internet wasn't always like this—it had to be remade for the... See more
Ben Tarnoff • Internet for the People
While the aughts were a time of massive trauma in nearly all areas of public life—caused by war, terrorism, duplicitous governments, and a mass-media system that was breaking down and drifting toward an à la carte “choose your own reality” pluralism—it still felt like the Internet was a place where truth, intelligence, and individuality might still
... See moreSteven Hyden • This Isn't Happening
Watching mainstream media attempt to unpack the loss is fascinating. https://t.co/3zdbqvptw9