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Clickbait’s destructive legacy

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Collapse of Trust in Institutions

Ben Smith: I really do think the collapse of trust in institutions is maybe the existential crisis of this era because it really does destroy our ability to solve any collective action problem. Once again, the book is called Traffic. It's a great read. It is sort of the history of this era and it's worth knowing. Every era thinks that history is ending next week. Then one will be right.

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