Clive Thompson on Nostr: Social media gets a lot of justified criticism for spreading bad information, ...
Social media gets a lot of justified criticism for spreading bad information, misinformation, and disinformation ...
... and fair enough!
But if you want to see the power of old-school industrial media ...
... consider that the home page of Fox News does not have a single story about the stock-market collapse ...
... until you scroll down, down, down, down ...
... maybe ten full screens ...
... to the *absolute bottom* of the screen, where it's mentioned in the podcasts section
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