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Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by TheKarateKid on Thursday October 29, 2020 @05:34PM (#24936228)
> It is built on trust. If you have to build trust with each individual journalist you follow a la carte, then that makes the entry barrier to following the news much higher.

While this may be true theoretically, it's already been disproven in practice. People believe almost anything posted on the Internet, whether it is a no-name website or a random tweet that goes viral.

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Re:My Resignation from the Intercept by whimsicalism on Thursday October 29, 2020 @06:17PM (#24936765)
> People believe almost anything posted on the Internet,

Some people certainly do. Whether the majority of voters as a whole do has not been proven to me.

There are still millions of loyal subscribers to the big institutions like NYT, WSJ, WaPo, etc.

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