You couldn't create a more anti-news internet if you tried

A scenario where an internet dictator intentionally undermines accurate information resembles current conditions. Traditional media has lost original news without being replaced by newer media, harming democratic societies. The loss of local media is linked to greater loneliness, lower awareness of public officials, and more corruption. This creates an invisible tax on communities paid civically, cognitively, and sometimes financially through higher local bond prices tied to wasteful government spending. Big Tech increasingly levies this tax silently. Behavioral economics is used to build more rigorous frameworks for explaining why systems fail and how they could improve. The work draws on Nobel-recognized research on psychological influences on human decision-making.

"Over the last couple of weeks, I went on a detour to bone up on the subfield of behavioral economics, starting with a couple of its seminal books, Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow and Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's Nudge (the 2021 "final" edition). Kahneman and Thaler won Nobel prizes in economics for their psychological work, which demonstrated that the story told about human nature in mains"

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