The Atlantic

5 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Alexis Madrigal · said 17 times in 10 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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brought up most by Alexis Madrigal (4), Sonal Chokshi (2), Margit Wennmachers (2), Balaji Srinivasan (2), Steven B. Johnson (1), Safi Bahcall (1), Rob Goodman (1), Karen X. Cheng (1)

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Jan 2, 2019 neutral
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Madrigal: Facebook drives an order of magnitude more traffic than Twitter
“Oh, an order of magnitude.”
Alexis Madrigal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:44 a16z Podcast | Reinventing Media
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
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Madrigal: Facebook sends The Atlantic more traffic than the entire web combined
“And so we've been able to sort of back into a bunch of different types of experiments, and seeing natural experiments that are running and find that basically Facebook is sending more traffic to us than the entire rest of the internet that we can see combined.”
Alexis Madrigal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:23 a16z Podcast | Reinventing Media
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Madrigal: Repackaging an Atlantic Facebook post boosted traffic to one million readers
“We had a story about tattoos and why, how tattoos work, like, within your body, and it's like a health story, and we sold it once on Facebook and I think on Wednesday, and kind of nothing happened. You know, maybe we're talking a few thousand unique visitors t…”
Alexis Madrigal Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:57 a16z Podcast | Reinventing Media
Jan 25, 2023
Assertion Supported
Skates: Americans with a regular local third place dropped post-2019
“In 2019, two-thirds of Americans said they had a favorite local place they went to regularly, but that two-thirds has actually dropped to just a little more than half.”
Anne Lee Skates Jan 25, 2023 ▶ 19:47 2023 Big Ideas in Technology (Part 1)
Aug 1, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Balaji Srinivasan: The Atlantic published an article advocating for invading Brazil
“Like, a great example is The Atlantic published this crazy piece calling for invading Brazil because they saw a photo of the Brazilian fires, ok?”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 1:18:10 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
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