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“Traffic”: Ben Smith and the Death of the Social Web

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Ben Shapiro and the Decline of Facebook

Ben Shapiro still gets a lot of traffic to the primary website from Facebook. Ben: If you don't care about journalism or ethics or standards and you know what people like, which is often almost always not what you think is important or news,. You're going to get the attention. It's all you like go for that. That's what Tucker Carlson was doing. And so naturally Ariana is looking to start a left wing rival to the Dredge world.

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