Your News Feed Is Filtering for Failure
Around 40% of people worldwide now say they sometimes or often avoid the news, up from 29% in 2017. It's not fragility — it's a rational response to a feed that filters for failure. This episode unpacks why every individual story can be true while the composite is a lie, what constructive journalism actually means (it isn't positive news), and how the ad model itself shapes what you're allowed to see. Then we map real tools to three distinct needs: a fire hose of weird global stories, hopeful science and tech coverage, and the slow, decade-scale analysis that daily news never provides. If…
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