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It’s Time For a Media Revolution: The GitHub Model of Truth
This is where this approach becomes toxic. Only an information outlet with the experience and savvy of a century, like the Times (and, maybe, only the Times itself), could produce an initiative at the level of The 1619 Project. But all that means is that other self-serving, truth-questioning endeavors will meet a lower standard of production. The t
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We’ve built an information system that rewards recency and relevancy mechanics, with an aim more towards discoverability than integrity.
Jarrod Dicker • Token Daily
But if the facts were elusive, the digital world had transmitted half-truths and lies at a speed and scale that would have been unimaginable even a decade earlier. The patient work of journalists to take time to discover what actually happened was buried in the avalanche of rumour – and then invisible except to the relatively tiny minority who stil
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