Why Fake News Spreads Faster Than True News
Table of contents Two claims are born on the same Tuesday morning. One says a city councilman was caught pocketing bribes from a construction firm. The other says the same councilman quietly reversed his position on a zoning ordinance. By dinner, the bribery claim has crossed a hundred thousand timelines, arrived in three group chats, […]
What If Shannon and Weaver Built Their Model Today?
Table of Contents It was just a model to solve a wiring problem, until it wasn’t. A model built to solve a wiring problem worked so well that entire disciplines adopted it as a theory of the communicative act itself. This essay isolates three assumptions that only held because the channel used to be dumb, […]