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Comment by righthand

4 months ago

It’s propped up by media companies, who have become addicted to the quick quote that a tweet provides. Any topic distilled down into 140 characters is always going to have multiple ways to interpret it, thus feeding the click bait pipeline with sufficient reactionary data.

It is a monument in the race to the bottom of “digestible/summarized content”.

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