We Keep Platforming People Who Are Destroying Democracy
There is a moment you have seen a thousand times and probably never named.
A news anchor introduces two guests. On one side, a scientist with thirty years of peer reviewed research. On the other, a man with a podcast and a financial relationship with an industry that profits from people not believing the scientist.
The anchor says: let’s hear both sides.
The chyron at the bottom of the screen gives them equal billing.
The segment runs four minutes. Each guest gets two.
And somewhere in living rooms across the country, a viewer watches and walks away thinking: well, I guess scientists and…
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