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the clickbait kind of truth, the kind that says ‘This One Weird Thing about the World Trade Center will Shock You’. It is also a kind of theodicy, an attempt to expose a ‘hidden truth’ that explains evil and suffering

The argument about ‘fake news’ is thus further limned by a folk history of intellectual decline

the moment that trolls were recognized by a louche young reactionary

It overwrites you, in lapidary fashion, with the deposit of history. Here lies the user: account details, turn-ons, preferences, search history, sex, race, class, nation.

The Twittering Machine thrives on its celerity, informality and interactivity.