Episode 173: The Disinformation Society w/ Marcus Gilroy-Ware
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Is Social Media a Self Reproducing System?
Regt: I think there's the kind of maxian approach to seeing this as a self reproducing system that doesn't have some kind of evil genius kin a white cat in a high backed chair. But am, you know, the agrithm is, its a means of production. It's a way of harvesting ar our attention. And so it's almost, in a certain sense, like these social meeting companies are pushing this just because it makes money. Am, it's not very sophisticated. It's just kind of mostly a quantitatyof machines. We don't even think that they consciously push certain stories. I mean, the juries cant have out on
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