Still, the mobile fan base for CloutHub has a long way to go to catch up with more established competitors. Brain has added additional media oomph with appearances on right-tilting cable news outlets like Fox News, OAN and NewsMax. Author and future theorist Andrew Keen has long decried the fever swamp of lies and conspiracy-mongering on social media. (Campaign buttons featured a cape-wearing superhero, “Brain Man.”) Community leaders chose him in the late 1990s to head Valley VOTE, the secession campaign. The writer Keen said he empathizes with the dilemma of a 21st-century audience — damned if it stays on social media, and damned if it flees.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 17, 2021 17:03 UTC