How X broke the news

The epistemology of breaking news.

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Chapters:
00:00 Howtown learns the news
02:09 twitter's first take
03:25 vague headlines
04:36 photojournalists
05:56 distorted images
08:08 who did it?
09:03 false accusations
12:24 why did things go wrong?
16:08 how to fix the news
18:22 meanwhile on patreon