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How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation panic
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
Democracy Isn't Rational, Is It?
Part of your argument in to piece is that we academic journalists are groping for a model of the world that sustains our belief in democratic government. People like to see demonstrations of technological order because it sustains their belief in a world that is knowable. That's one factor, absolutely. It sits on top of a lot of other actors. And let's think about all of them. Ye. I think we want a manageable democracy, because that sustains the illusion of control. But to the extent that our societies have been manageable in the past, they've been so because they weren't all that democratic. They werent all that open or dissipatory. Now that that game is
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