Marc Andreessen

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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen: Monitoring the Situation and the Future of Media · 21 Apr 2026 podcast

OK, so this OK, that's a very important point.

So very important point.

So I would say two things.

So one is the truth or falsity of the actual event doesn't seem to matter at all.

And I think this actually throws people because you start to think these are all fake and they're not all fake.

Like actually bad things happen, right?

Actually bad things happen.

And it's actually like fully legitimate to get outraged about those things.

But also people are going to get outraged about a lot of things that actually didn't happen.

And so for the purpose of the discussion of the media, again, this is a Marshall McLuhan thing.

If it's on the internet, it's a viral social media outrage cycle.

Like whatever are the facts of the thing, it doesn't really matter.

In fact, it's probably best, to your point, it's probably best if it's actually hard to tell what actually happened.

Because that makes it something that you can more easily argue about.

And so that's one thing.

And then to the point that you just made, I really agree with that also, which is the degree of importance of the actual issue doesn't matter that much, right?

And so if something happens to a single person and then something happens to 10,000 people, you can have the same level of outrage in each case.

Like the outrage doesn't scale with the number of people affected, right?

Right?

And in a lot of ways, maybe the outrage is even higher when it's a specific person because then it becomes personalized, right?

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