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local newspapers have shut down since before the hand sanitizer. not only that, the number of newsroom jobs were cut in half between 2008 and 2019, local news deserts have left thousands of communities without a local paper that means fewer reporters covering local and state government. the lack of legitimate information adds to cynicism and suspension which demagogues take advantage of. politicians legitimizing their lies, leading up to the role that jones played riling up the crowd on january 6th. there s no accounting for enthusiastic dupes, people blinded by hyper partisanship or the rush of conspiracy theories. there is a sucker born every minute, but the stakes are higher now, political carnival barkers can have real power and the monetization of misinformation threatens democracy itself because it depends to a large extent on reasoning together and that s why we need to strengthen basic
affidavits in those cases. in those conversations i really felt acutely that link that he s talking about, that these were people who had become enraged at various facets of what was going on in the world, masking policies and so forth, partly because misinformation had flourished in news deserts that they lived in, partly because they were living in an algorithmically curated social media misinformation bubble, where as you heard that woman say, the sentiment was very much, i don t want to be in receipt of facts that might shake up my worldview. that highlights how dangerous it is. is it the beginning of a new, much worse era? look, these are old tactics, authoritarian leaders have been weaponizing misinformation, been trying to alienate people from the press for a long time. certainly those tactics are resurging. we followed a wonderful miami