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And like that —poof—he was gone.

A note about me and Mother Jones.

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Ben Dreyfuss
Apr 12, 2021
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Personal news: I am no longer editorial director at Mother Jones. You need to find new reasons to pretend to cancel your subscriptions.

I was hired at MJ in July of 2013 as their engagement editor. In that role I was one of the first people to recognize some of the ways of gaming Facebook. Our audience grew quickly and in time it changed many parts of th…

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