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Douglas Rushkoff

Jan 20, 2021

8 min read

It Won’t Be Easy to Break Free From Trump’s Media Chaos

If America is going to recover from its Trump addiction, it’s going to need to embrace monotony

Donald Trump is seen speaking through a camera at a press conference.
Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images

Admit it. Twitter isn’t quite as sensational without its leading troll, President Donald Trump. Online disinformation — perhaps the most compelling content available on social networks — is down 73% since he was…

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Douglas Rushkoff

Douglas Rushkoff

Author of Team Human, Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, and host of the Team Human podcast http://teamhuman.fm

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