David Pakman
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first heard Jul 2026
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Which one is going to get grandma and a college student and whoever else to like it, comment and share it?
Of course, it's the emotionally salient one.
That's what these platforms are optimized for.
Right.
There is there are a lot of really interesting books I read in writing this, including, for example, about the New York Times investigation into Harvey Weinstein.
And one of the things that comes up or Ronan Farrow's book about the same topic, a lot of these investigative journalism books, and they all tell stories of editors and executives and all of these layers.
that have different incentives to slow down a lot of these investigations.
And then you find out there's personal stuff at play and there's financial incentives, all these different things.
That's a problem with that legacy system.
One of the great things about the digital platforms is you kind of get around that or you eliminate that.
The other problem with it is that with no fact checking and with no layers of let's make sure we feel good about this stuff will go ultra viral simply because it's emotionally salient.
So I don't tell this.
The book is not about bad legacy media.
There's pros and cons to these systems.
The democratization of the news and politics space has been phenomenal.
On the other hand, we also have this problem of truth versus virality to contend with.
That's right.
And not only that, not everybody is given all of the same material from which they can then say, here's the side I come down on.
Based on your interests and online behavior, you and I and everybody else can have a completely different sense of what's going on out in the world.
A great example is with the Trump medical stuff that was, you know, when he went for his third physical in 13 months.
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