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NY Times Runs Defense For Social Media Bans, Buries Evidence They Don’t Work Until Paragraph 14

Imagine you’re writing an article about a popular policy trend. The trend is expensive to implement, disruptive to normal operations, and-here’s the key part-there’s substantial research showing it doesn’t actually work and can cause other significant problems. How would you structure that article? One approach: Lead with the evidence. “Despite growing enthusiasm for [policy proposal], [.].