Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

If something is popping in the news the Queen is dead and you go around the table and 19 people have sensible takes on it and one person has a deranged take, the current setup incentivizes you to run the deranged take. — PolitiTweet.org

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In the analog era less stuff was published. I'm sure someone pitched "Tolstoy is bad because of Communism" but editors would've said "that's dumb less pass." Today the incentives point toward "that's dumb but it'll get some clicks." — PolitiTweet.org

as a child of the cold war i don't recall the demonization of russian culture i see now. am i deluding myself? th… https://t.co/fb82MkLedx

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Then if despite all that, 99 percent of published takes are sensible and 1 percent are deranged then the odds are the deranged take will end up getting disproportionately amplified — admittedly with much of the amplification being criticism — because it's more distinctive. — PolitiTweet.org

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