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Media myth: The “world’s happiest country” myth is now the basis for follow on stories

Media myth: The “world’s happiest country” myth is now the basis for follow on stories

The “world’s happiest country” myth lives on year after year after year. Finland now pretends it knows why it was identified as “the world’s happiest country”. In fact, the metrics used to determine “happiest” have nothing to do with happiest. The “happiest” title was promoted as sounding better than a metric that measured “well-being” based on things having nothing to do with happiness!

Social: The Twitter/X lawsuit against Media Matters

Social: The Twitter/X lawsuit against Media Matters

Nice summary of the lawsuit filed by Twitter/X against Media Matters. X alleges that Media Matters created a finely tuned account intended to create pairings of ugly posts with advertisers – and says that this was so fine tuned that only Media Matters ever saw the pairings.