“Traffic”: Ben Smith and the Death of the Social Web
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The End of BuzzFeed News
The book is about the end of an era and I think we could all feel that. The marriage between news and the social web really clearly is at this point pretty close to over. People spend less time on Facebook and Twitter because they're overtaken by this alienating style of politics. Like, you know, the style of right wing populism that he kind of embodied in some ways were the culmination of this whole project.
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