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Erica Etelson's avatar

I think there's a lot of truth in this essay about how nasty, unproductive and intellectually dishonest so much social media discourse. Steve, I think you may have opened the door to some pushback by using the word "all" here: "They all make their money by saying things they don’t believe because their audience wants to believe them."

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"I think you may have opened the door to some pushback by using the word "all" here:"

Ah, no, that's just because the sentence is out of its context. Preceding that sentence I'd listed a few different types of bad-faith actor on the internet and was referring to "all" of these different types. Not all social media users in general.

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