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Only more recently has the analytical value of these hegemonic frameworks begun to be more widely questioned. New media technologies and practices in the West have destabilized the business models on which many established news companies relied and by which their journalist’s professional news reporting practices were funded. Contemporary journalists and editors adapting to the news’ digitalization while also trying to make a living in online environments crowded with bloggers, vloggers, tweeters, and feeds often find themselves operating less as guardians of truth and democracy than as fast-fingered processers and packagers of already circulating information.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
the resultant flood of text and images enabled by zero marginal distribution is the prerequisite for models that unbundle the creation of an idea and its substantiation.
The AI Unbundling
Ben Thompson
I guess this all has nothing really to do with the lawsuit, since (1) he had not raised the financing to buy Tesla when he tweeted that he had and (2) he never actually did. But really his position is that he tweeted that he was considering taking Tesla private, and that if he did end up deciding to take it private then financing would not be a problem. We can’t really know if that’s true, because the condition was never satisfied. But it seems like it might be.
Elon Musk Never Jokes
bloomberg.com
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