Thread · 2 tweets · 2 Jan 2019

Attentional harvesting is a pyramid scheme and populist leaders sit at the top. Fix that and the populist wave is done for.

Democracy was better served by editorial channels because a media’s reputation and its content were tied. This is what social media has decoupled: those companies reap the money from users but have externalised risks and costs of being actually responsible for what you show.