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Clickbait’s destructive legacy
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Dispiriting Experience of Working in Media During Trump's Campaign
CNN's John Sutter says he thought social media was going to be a good business. But by 2017, BuzzFeed News had seven figures or revenue directly from Twitter and other platforms. He says working in media during Trump's campaign "was just absolutely one of the most dispiriting experiences" The experience of watching all the pathologies of it get so thoroughly hacked was 'maddening,' writes Sutter.
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