Platforms need the news, but they're killing it

106.673 - 127.595 Nilay Patel

That means a lot of our media ecosystem is driven by algorithmic recommendation systems, which tend to favor quantity over quality. And that's created a news ecosystem that allows a lot of influencers and aggregators to take the value created by original journalism and maximize it for an algorithmic audience that doesn't really know where the information first came from and probably doesn't care.