Google’s decision to kill Google Reader was a turning point in enabling media to be manipulated by misinformation campaigns. The difference between individuals choosing the feeds they read & companies doing it for you affects all other forms of media.
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Seems like people popular on Tweetosphere are just coming to this realization. Later in the same story, Dash continues:
The point is not that huge numbers of people used Google Reader. It’s that lots of people who *make media* did. Instead, they look at a feed generated by an opaque, unaccountable algorithm whose board member thinks nothing of destroying media companies & funding misinformation.
— find me at @anildash@me.dm or anildash.com (@anildash) April 2, 2018