The Digital Bar Never Cuts You Off

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Jill Lepore, historian and essayist, wrote a piece that appeared in the New Yorker this week, titled The Artificial State. She is writing about the effects on our political discourse on "the digital manipulation of attention-mining algorithms" in the service of "minutely message-tested online engagement."