True Causes
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ATLAS · A CLAIM AND WHERE IT CAME FROM

Ad money rewards volume of attention, not quality of it

Raised in 3 rooms

Why do we stay inside echo chambers?
Why do people prefer their own information bubble?
Why do people like filter bubbles?

→ What leads to it (3)

Nobody agrees on who should decide what is true
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Every fix ships to the users who complain loudest
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Being wrong in front of people you know is worse than being wrong
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→ What it leads to (2)

We built for a scale nobody had governed before
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A newsroom now costs more than the advertising it can sell
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Every room keeps its own record: its map, its rules, and every judged pair with its votes, downloadable from the room. ← The atlas