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Facts Vs. Clicks: How Algorithms Reward Extremism

Facts Vs. Clicks: How Algorithms Reward Extremism

The David Frum Show vor 10 Monaten

Charlie Warzel on how our online information became so untrustworthy and how we can fight back. Plus: why America’s Founding Fathers would be appalled by Donald Trump 250 years later and Edward Berenson’s The Trial of Madame Caillaux.

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On this week’s episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David
Frum opens with his thoughts on the upcoming 250th anniversary of
the signing of the Declaration of Independence. He examines the
many actions President Donald Trump has taken that run counter to
the ideals articulated in 1776, and considers how the Founders’
constitutional genius may ultimately be what frustrates Trump’s
attempt to consolidate power. David is then joined by his Atlantic
colleague Charlie Warzel, a staff writer and the host of the Galaxy
Brain podcast, to discuss the temptations that come with launching
a new podcast and the challenge of serving an audience that often
rewards extreme content. Together, they talk about the
responsibility that comes with hosting a podcast in a media
environment that prizes clicks over truth. They also explore how
conspiracy theorists have come to function as an alternate reality
of “mainstream media,” and why the fight for truth may not yet be
lost. Finally, David closes with a discussion of Edward Berenson’s
The Trial of Madame Caillaux and what it reveals about how future
generations may come to view our own beliefs. Sign up for
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