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Benjamin Norton
Benjamin Norton
Known for	Anti-imperialist reporting

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Benjamin Norton is a US-born journalist currently living in China (formerly in Nicaragua). He spent 5 years at The Grayzone but left in January 2022 to become independent,^[1] starting a new journalistic outlet called the Geopolitical Economy Report (previously Multipolarista).^[2]^[3]

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← Back to all essays | Author's essays On Social Media: The Commodification of Human Connection

by Savoy
Published: 2022-09-23 (last update: 2024-09-18)
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The advent of the high-tech era, marked by the proliferation of personal computing devices in the 90s, has brought about a social transformation whose effects are still not entirely understood. Communication has been thrust into instantaneity: real-time chat and mobile devices have rendered "snail mail" and more static forms of voice communication to a bygone era, and thoughtful long-form writing has to fight its way across a caustic sea of attention-seeking headlines and quips written in record time.

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↑ @BenjaminNorton on Twitter "After 5 years, I have left The Grayzone. I am proud of the journalism I did there, but we're going in different directions. I will be continuing my journalism at a new outlet..." (archived)
↑ https://multipolarista.com
↑ @BenjaminNorton (2023-01-10). Twitter. Archived from the original on 2023-01-21. Retrieved 2023-01-21.

[1] @BenjaminNorton on Twitter "After 5 years, I have left The Grayzone. I am proud of the journalism I did there, but we're going in different directions. I will be continuing my journalism at a new outlet..." (archived)

[2] ttps://multipolarista.com

[3] @BenjaminNorton (2023-01-10). Twitter. Archived from the original on 2023-01-21. Retrieved 2023-01-21.

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