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it’s clear that liberals, who are first to heavily promote the phrase “fake news,” mean to reference conservative misinformation and right-wing websites. And there’s certainly plenty of that. Agence France-Presse declares matter-of-factly that it’s the right wing that’s guilty of fake news, and that Obama has been plagued by eight years of “false s
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reports. That was what I considered
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Opinion | Michael Goldhaber, the Cassandra of the Internet Age - The New York Times
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“Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed. He’s making sure your imagination withers. Until it’s
... See moreExactly one month after First Draft announces its initiative, President Obama advances the cause with a pitch at the White House Frontiers Conference, held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He blames a “wild, wild, west” media environment for destroying rational discourse online. “We are going to have to rebuild within this wild, wild we
... See moreSharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
His name is Tristan Harris, a former start-up founder and Google engineer who deviated from his well-worn path through the world of tech to become something decidedly rarer in this closed world: a whistleblower.
“This thing is a slot machine,” Harris says early in the interview while holding up his smartphone.
“How is that a slot machine?” Cooper ask
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Technology companies drove the survivors into a mindset of engineered efficiency—the belief that data tells you everything of value. “Just like the tech companies, journalism has come to fetishize data. And this data has come to corrupt journalism,” Franklin Foer writes in World Without Mind. “Once journalists come to know what works, which stories
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