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When Media Economics Force You to Distort the Truth You Want to Tell

I'm a journalist and I want to report truth but my publication needs clicks to survive so I have to write headlines that oversimplify complex issues and I feel complicit in misinformation.

Zera
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The attention economy can force even truth-seeking professionals to participate in the very dynamics that undermine informed public discourse.

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