Data is agnostic. Information is amoral. Pointing the narrative-free fire-hose at the digital citizens of the third world does nothing to empower them, and U.S. politics is proof that More News just means More Influence for the person with the craftiest narrative. Once the saturation point is reached, even valuable information is part of the problem: no one has the capacity to sift and filter, and we fall back into the embrace of our trusted interpreters.
Tweeted by Jeff Eaton, re-tweeted by John Albin.
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