i wanted to ask Amee about facebook's role in the rise of the right. She says social media plays a very significant role and shapes people's opinions. i asked her what she learned from looking at documents released by francis howgan last year. Amee: content moderation is hard. It's real hard. And meanwhile, you have countless people being exposed to this tent that isn't easy to fix.
Paris Marx is joined by Shoshana Wodinsky to discuss how the digital infrastructure that companies have built out over the past couple decades to track everything we do in order to serve us ads places us at risk, and how that’s come into focus since the overturning of abortion rights in Roe v Wade in the United States.
Shoshana Wodinsky is a privacy reporter at Gizmodo. Follow Shoshana on Twitter at @swodinsky.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
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