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282: Brain-Washing Machine (Fix the News is a good newsletter) https://fixthenews.com/282-brain-washing-machine/ #journalism #positiveNews
Text Shot: News organisations have spent decades optimising for this kind of reporting. They've long known that it's the negative, highly arousing stories that get the most traffic - research shows that headlines have grown steadily more negative over the last two decades, with the proportion conveying anger and fear nearly tripling since 2013. And social media has supercharged this tendency. A comprehensive study of nearly 100,000 articles and over half a billion social media posts recently found that people are almost twice as likely to share negative news articles on social media. Jaron Lanier had it right seven years ago when he said that social media was biased, "not to the Left or the Right, but downward." This didn't happen through some dramatic rupture but through a series of seemingly pragmatic choices: Legacy media, desperate for attention, has been producing increasingly negative content because that's what gets clicked on. Social media users, presented with this darker…

282: Brain-Washing Machine

Plus, a sea of photovoltaic possibility, good news for the environment in America (seriously), global prices back to normal, 'emergent' collective memory for ants, and some Herculaneum scroll action.
Angus Hervey (Fix The News)
#journalism #positivenews
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