Module 04 · information about the world
Three taps instead of one mug
Argument, facts and entertainment have separate taps and separate rules. The whole state rests on the political one.
Channels
one per voteRanking of newsrooms
index of truthfulnessIncome is shown against the leader. The news media in Infocracy are boring by design: no speculation, no gossip, no commentary — none of what gives the news its spice today.
Look from the other side: you are running a newsroom
a simulation, not your powersFor a moment you step into “The Daily Courier”, to see the index from the inside. As a citizen you have none of these options and you move nobody anywhere. What you really can do is in the panel beside this one.
Everything allowed today is allowed here
no indexThis is where most of today's media would land right after the transition. Not because somebody pushes them there, but because on the news tap their way of working yields a PPWPI of 60% and the bottom of the list, while here they can do exactly what they do today and have an audience for it. They lose the label “news”. They keep everything else.