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  • Trust Ships in Boxes
    Trust Ships in Boxes
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    Cass Wilder

    2020-08-17

    The Postal Service isn’t just delivery. It’s legitimacy. The story being told this month is that the fight is over mail-in ballots. That is true, but incomplete. The deeper fight is over whether the country can still run a basic…

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    EXPLAINER, INSTITUTIONS, MEDIA, POLITICS
    administrative sabotagecovid-19election integritygovernanceinfrastructurelegitimacylogisticsmail-in votingmisinformationplatformspolarizationtrustUSPS
  • The Election Is a Moderation Problem
    The Election Is a Moderation Problem
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    Cass Wilder

    2020-07-21

    July feels like a rehearsal for November: the same lies, the same outrage, the same incentive structure. This isn’t just an election year. It’s a content-management crisis with ballots attached.

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    EXPLAINER, INSTITUTIONS, MEDIA, POLITICS
    algorithmscovid-19election 2020Facebookmail-in votingmisinformationmoderationplatform governanceprotest coveragetrustTwitterYouTube
  • The Curve, the Clip, and the Click
    The Curve, the Clip, and the Click
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    Cass Wilder

    2020-03-24

    March 2020 forced reality back onto the screen, but the feed still tried to turn it into content. The curve is not a metaphor, the clip is not leadership, and the click is not control. In a crisis measured in…

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