MeFi: Democracy suffers if our news environment incentivizes bullshit.

Blinders. Not just Facebook. Everywhere. Yellow journalism is alive and well, and all over the bloody internet. Remember Milo and Senator Bedfellow? That. It's 3/4s of the articles I'm aggregating these days. The more panicked you are, the more you pay the news orgs through ad impressions. Stop the vicious circle. Get quiet, get organized, get serious.