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Episode 80: Media Matters CEO Angelo Carusone Gives Us a Masterclass in Misinformation

What the Hack with Adam Levin

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How to Stop Violence Against Gay People

Last year, we identified that if you engage with mildly homophobic content on TikTok within four videos, you would start getting a video that promoted you to encourage violence against the gay person. And so what they were trying to do was use the algorithm to connect them to potentially individuals that would be likely to commit violence against gay people. What we did is then because we identified that early, we went and scattered found dozens of examples of sort of that seed material. Here's how here, here are all these bad actors. You can stop this, right? Not just by taking the videos down by tinkering with your recommendation engine so that you're not actually promoting this very specific type of content to

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