New explainer on Drone Fever via a push from NYT. The anecdotes about DroneTok influencers highlight their motivations. But the issue is still that the people who read the NYT are not people who reject “all things official”.

Over in other realities, people will continue to believe what they want to; the “we are the media now” creators will continue to monetize innuendo.

Making it clear that “we are the media now” media is *often unreliable* doesn’t seem to break through…