{
    "byline": "By Charlie Warzel",
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    "excerpt": "Back in the web-traffic-obsessed days of 2018, at a time of dawning awareness of how easily audiences online could be manipulated and spoofed by bots, the writer Max Read argued that the internet had crossed a threshold known as \u201cthe Inversion.\u201d Not only had bots proliferated across the internet; they had come to constitute it. In outnumbering humans, bots were also loosening everyone\u2019s grasp on the very reality of online experience. \u201cWhat\u2019s gone from the internet, after all, isn\u2019t \u2018truth,\u2019 but trust: the sense that the people and things we encounter are what they represent themselves to be,\u201d Read wrote.",
    "lang": null,
    "length": 11096,
    "publishedTime": null,
    "siteName": null,
    "title": "The Feeling of Control Slipping Away"
}