War in the Content Economy

Paris Marx is joined by Ryan Broderick and Hussein Kesvani to discuss how war gets filtered through social media and the content economy, and what that means for how we make sense of it.

Ryan Broderick writes the Garbage Day newsletter and hosts Content Mines. Hussein Kesvani is a writer and the co-host of Trashfuture and Ten Thousand Posts. Follow Ryan on Twitter at @broderick and Hussein at @HKesvani.

• Ryan has written two issues of Garbage Day trying to make sense of what’s happening in the war.
• Hussein wrote a very good tweet.
• Sam Biddle wrote about how Facebook is allowing users to praise the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion.
• Taylor Lorenz wrote about Instagram meme pages capitalizing on the conflict.
• Journalists have been saying some pretty racist things about why the war in Ukraine is different than those in the Middle East.
• Chris Stokel-Walker wrote about how TikTok is designed for war.
• Jonah Peretti wrote an article called “Capitalism and Schizophrenia.”
• NBC’s Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel wondered aloud on Twitter whether NATO should start World War III.
• Hillary Clinton neglected the consequences of the US arming Afghan “insurgents” against the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
• The media isn’t applying the right level of scrutiny to Ukrainian war stories, like Snake Island.
• Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could have consequences for semiconductors.

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