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Tech is realizing that many reports of matters where they have first-hand knowledge are distorted or outright false, like the Bloomberg Big Hack story.

This is breaking Gell-Mann amnesia across the industry.
goodreads.com/quotes/65213-b…
Cover story that was flatly refuted by Apple, Amazon, DHS, and the industry at large. No retraction.
Another egregious example was the fake news story on how Dorian Nakamoto was Satoshi. Rebutted at the time, never retracted.

Here for critique: genius.com/2900395

Here for stonewall: newsweek.com/newsweeks-stat…

"Newsweek stands strongly behind Ms. Goodman and her article."
So many more examples that were distorted or exaggerated.

- Macedonians (the original "fake news")
- FB IRA & Russian ads (played both sides, budget was small relative to campaigns)
- Cambridge Analytica (overhyped their profiling and the credulous bought it)

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From the Journalist and the Murderer, by Janet Malcolm of the New Yorker. Rated one of the top 100 nonfiction books of the 20th century by the Modern Library. amazon.com/Journalist-Mur…
The book is short and well worth reading. Presages much of today’s train crash on social media.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journ…
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The one form of equality a journalist will always resist is the idea that everyone is now a journalist
The one type of corporation a journalist will always defend is a media corporation
1. Media companies are corporations
2. Their interests are not always aligned with yours
3. Act accordingly
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What if every slide in a talk had a QR code to interact with?
In theory scanning a QR code is just the same as typing a URL, but it can be faster (esp for long URLs) and is big in China.

Maybe we could develop new forms of coordinated audience interaction. Both in the auditorium and later online.
Here's @conniechan on QR codes in China in 2017:
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And @avesegal with the 2019 version:
a16z.com/2019/10/30/the…

Crypto may mainstream QR codes in the West.
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