balajis
@balajis.eth
Everything online that isn’t cryptographically signed will soon be considered fake. Everything that is cryptographically signed will be considered only as trustworthy as the signer.
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Adam Baybutt
@baybutt
Fits well with the partisan story in media/public discourse. Chaos in yellow journalism era. Everyone agrees during 3 cable news channels era. Chaos again post internet in fake new era. The news was always just someone’s opinion; we are just now returning to nature state of many many opinions.
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Adam Baybutt
@baybutt
Hour glass chart in this paper nicely empirical documents this, for congressional speech. https://www.nber.org/papers/w22423
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