I want to share some longer remarks on the so-called Silicon Valley elite “sex party” that’s making the rounds. (Be warned: the truth is boring.)pic.twitter.com/T4BrLTeFof
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Here’s a problem: Most of us were happy to let this go as long as nobody was naming names. People want to think the tech elite are sex partiers? Fine. Whatever. It’s not the first time the media has overlooked basic due diligence for something that would certainly grab eyeballs.
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But no, it’s not fine. An incentive structure that causes widely-read and broadly trusted publications to run with fabrications is NOT FINE. Something is very, very broken here. What happened to journalism?
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@FortuneMagazine headline. What are you doing, Fortune? This is NOT okay.pic.twitter.com/1lTl7Tqdtf
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This is *terrible* for women. I was the victim of several attempted assaults at parties in college. There are *real* events where women are preyed upon. They shouldn’t be given the back seat *to falsehoods* whenever the people who enabled them aren’t famous or wealthy.
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All of these big names in tech who stayed at this party through the night KNOW that the media is grossly mischaracterizing it. Think about how this must affect the way they look at other media reports of abuse. Fellow women: the costs of these profitable lies are falling on US.
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It got very, very profitable to peddle as much negativity as possible.
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I think youraward yourself here... basically money and not journalismhttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/951841848531693570 …
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Profitable lies
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The quality of journalism has declined with the disruption of its business model. And Silicon Valley is gaining on Wall Street as a target for populist resentment. The results of this synergy seem likely to get worse, not better, as automation obsoletes more and more jobs.
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Maybe the lesson is to trust less of what they write. Whenever I read the press on a topic I know, they invariably get it completely wrong. Then “Gell-Mann amnesia” kicks in...
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