Masha Gessen and Joshua Yaffa on the Escalation of Violence in Ukraine
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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The President's Secret Weapon, the Attention Economy?
I'm in contact with the president's office, yes. No security consent. And what can you say about zolensky's thinking? He's doing something extremely 20 first century, which is that he's winning a 20 first century information war through social media. Where does that come from? First of all, obviously, it's the creative side of him. It's the show bis background. The second element, and that's where my background, cind hav comes in, is to do with the theory of the e, so called attention economy.
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