Reposted by @counteringcrime.bsky.social
"tech keeps driving down the cost of producing bullshit while the cost of obtaining quality info only goes up. It's getting more & more expensive to produce the good stuff, & the good stuff has to compete against more & more trash once it's out on the market" mattdpearce.substack.com/p/journalism...
mattdpearce.substack.com
Journalism's fight for survival in a postliterate democracy
The truth is going out of business as technology turns us into a folk-story society, ripe for influence by a demagogue.