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Conflict Profiteers
Conflict profiteers are people who benefit from the continuation of a conflict. These benefits may be financial, political or social.
News and Opinion
Stop Hate for Profit
A hopeful effort to get Facebook to take serious and effective steps to address the role that it has played in tearing our society apart.
News and Opinion
Slouching Toward Post-Journalism
Efforts to reverse US hyper-polarization are likely to be hindered by an ongoing shift of major media outlets to a post-journalism, advocacy-based funding model.
News and Opinion
How to Put Out Democracy's Dumpster Fire
Our democratic habits have been killed off by an internet kleptocracy that profits from disinformation, polarization, and rage. Here's how to fix that.
News and Opinion
Not Everyone in New York Wanted the Coronavirus to Lose
A window into one manifestation of what we call the Bad-Faith Actor problem -- people who try to profit by promoting division and dysfunction.
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Jeff Zucker, inventor of centrist panic-porn
An eye-opening look at how CNN was so successful at helping inflame and then profiting from US political tensions.
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We keep moving from one wrong fight to another. Here's how to stop.
From Amanda Ripley, provocative essay that explores the inflammatory role being played by conflict entrepreneurs and the misconceptions that we spend so much time fighting about.