Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
Media on the incumbent web is in crisis. It turns out that paying publishers for clicks, endless loops of “content” and ads, all served on platforms far beyond their maximum-viable scale is ideal for misinformation, disinformation and the decay of trust.
Coindesk • A New Era of Media Begins With Tokenization
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
In this world, with content as a supreme cultural value, it’s better for something to be interesting than ethically sound. Widespread attention bestows an aura; becoming content is how reality is made real.
Drew Austin • The grifter content mill
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