The way that lots of people consume information is very similar to how you would do it if you were, k working in a news room. It feels like a very universal but default way of understanding information. And i think this is also one reason why you see lots of people acting as if they're like, working in news rooms and being like, check your souces or mikeo. I've been very what i've been kind of wary of, like, projecting matters, like a main stream experience. But then i also think about lake fe news economy more broadly. These platforms rely on so much generated content which doesn't have an incentive to be good. The factthat alot of
Paris Marx is joined by Ryan Broderick and Hussein Kesvani to discuss how war gets filtered through social media and the content economy, and what that means for how we make sense of it.
Ryan Broderick writes the Garbage Day newsletter and hosts Content Mines. Hussein Kesvani is a writer and the co-host of Trashfuture and Ten Thousand Posts. Follow Ryan on Twitter at @broderick and Hussein at @HKesvani.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
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