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In the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly, contributing editor Michael Hirschorn rails against the “commodification of facts” caused by social media. Specifically he's irked by how Twitter, Wikipedia and the rest have made it possible for right wing (in most cases) commentators to create their own set of facts to support their agenda. “The communal void allows the emergence of an Andrew Breitbart on the right and, occupying far less morally compromised space on the left, a figure like Julian Assange, the mastermind behind WikiLeaks (no affiliation with Wikipedia)...

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechnewsAm/~3/4dtbDNZmWFk/atlantic_s_michael_hirschorn_americans_will_believe_any_shit_they_see_online_tctv_