I loved Paul Buccheit’s (of YC) quote on social media: “[Twitter] is like a game where you get 1 point for being fair and thoughtful and 1000 points for charac

I loved Paul Buccheit’s (of YC) quote on social media: “[Twitter] is like a game where you get 1 point for being fair and thoughtful and 1000 points for character assassination.” https://mobile.twitter.com/paultoo/status/1100144882872532992 https://mobile.twitter.com/paultoo/status/110014488287253299... (He said it about Twitter, but I think the spirit was about social media generally) Paul also helped brainstorm “Don’t Be Evil” at an early Google. Personally, I don’t blame the media alone (as some in this thread do). All of us are a product of the incentives we face, and feed algorithms play a huge role (including for the journalists at media outlets). And as always, I will shill my media literacy guide (there’s also a version for software engineers): https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/README.... https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/software-engineers-media-guide.md https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/softwar...