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Charlie Warzel
Charlie Warzel is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of its newsletter Galaxy Brain, about technology, media, and big ideas. He can be reached via email. He is a co-author of Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working From Home. Previously he was a writer at large for The New York Times’ Opinion section and a senior writer at BuzzFeed News.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: Samuel Corum / Getty. The End of News
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The internet is better at telling stories than it is at making sense.
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