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   "text": "The decentralized economy still lacks trustworthy open source decentralized institutions for recording and parsing history, reporting news and guiding attention, without which the average person cannot judge which networks to join or what to invest in.",
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   "text": "If transparent democratic institutions are not built to replace the corrupt ones, new opaque centralized institutions will take their place, as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter already do with secret algorithms that control what stories spread with no democratic oversight.",
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