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'over the decades, the internet revolutionized reading patterns...sixty-two percent of americans get their news through social media, and most of it via facebook; a third of all traffic to media sites flows from google. this has placed media in a state of abject financial dependence on tech companies. to survive, media companies lost track of their values. even journalists of the highest integrity have internalized a new mind-set; they worry about how to successfully pander to google's and facebook's algorithms. in pursuit of clicks, some of our nation's most important purveyors of news have embraced sensationalism; they have published dubious stores; they have heaped attention on propagandists and conspiracists, one of whom was elected president of the united states. facebook and google have created a world where the old boundaries between fact and falsehood have eroded, where misinformation spreads virally.' - franklin foer
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