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Why the internet’s loudest “thinkers” are just grifters with ring lights — and what I’m building to stop them

I have always believed that if you give a man a microphone, you will discover his soul. Sometimes that soul is filled with principle. More often, it’s filled with AdSense optimization.

What we’re watching in the slow-motion demolition of public discourse isn’t new — it’s merely accelerated. The problem with the internet isn’t that there are too many opin…