Alex Fink: Information Is Food for Your Mind and the Diet Is Terrible

Alex Fink grew up in the Soviet Union, where his parents hid in the bathroom to listen to Voice of America at 4am, and now runs Otherweb, an app that filters news quality. He argues the collapse of information quality is not a conspiracy but an incentive problem: almost all content is monetized by clicks and views, so everything drifts toward clickbait whether creators intend it or not. The conversation covers why pleading with Facebook will not work, what a nutrition label for an article looks like, and why bad information is a delayed-onset illness like processed food.

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