FT's Burn-Murdoch: great video explainers are unfalsifiable in real time
jburnmurdoch · x · 2026-10-06
FT data journalist John Burn-Murdoch continues the thread: every polished video explainer leaves him thinking "that was great, and I have no idea if it was true, and checking would be laborious." He argues the shift to video makes society more oral again — engaging style is more salient than content, and video is harder to fact-check in real time than text.
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