As purpose-built disinformation engines become nearly free to create and run, the production of researched and factual content remains expensive. The result could well be an internet so clogged with 'debris' that it loses everything that once made it useful.
Americans think the economy is worse than it actually is. Telling them everything is fine is probably the worst possible response.
The Bush administration response to a terror attack prioritized ideology over security. Two decades later, Netanyahu's far-right coalition scrambles to repeat the errors.
20 years after political blogs organized a new generation of activists, American liberalism has again lost its fire.
Launching yet another website in the current media environment might be an act of insanity, and yet here we are.