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Balaji Srinivasan: NYT, WSJ, and WaPo functioned as the presidency's board
“Think of Wall Street Journal, NYT, and Washington Post as the three board of director seats on top of the presidency. The president was, it was like the titular CEO, But the Journal, the Times, and the Washington Post, if they all put their multi-sig key in th…”
Balaji Srinivasan: The Unabomber murdered people to force media distribution
“He killed those people so he could get an op-ed in the Washington Post, right? Now, why? Because distribution was so scarce back then that, you know, he wanted to get his manifesto out, so he literally killed people for the distribution, right?”
Chen: Washington Post and Toutiao used AI to write Olympic sports coverage
“During the last Olympics, two professional journalism outfits, one, the Washington Post, and then another, the Chinese news aggregator called Toutiao, both ran experiments where they had AIs write coverage about sporting events in the Olympics.”