Episode 014: The Rise of the Algorithm
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i think it's really hard to understand a lot of what happened, or is happening with news without understanding that your typical newspaper in particular, had a local monopoly. And so this was the source of all their profits,. because if you were an advertiser and you wanted to reach everyone, like that was your best option - but also tenuous position. So i'm not saying that that the motivation to set up a chinese wall was a bad one. I think it was a good one. But there as also a big benefit to that in that, ah, you know, you could keep, you could mollify advertisers, you can mollify the people that be a from
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