A Better Internet Requires Ending the Monopolies w/ Cory Doctorow
Tech Won't Save Us
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How Facebook Persuasive Tools Can Make a Difference in an Election
i think that the best evidence we have for how good face books persuasive tools are is the companies themselves. And it's not, by anlarge like, peer reviewed research out of their arind departments. It's their marketing claims, right? When they sit down with a pote advertiser, they say, you know, if you just trust us and give us your money, we will sell the heck out of whatever it is you need to sell. This is not the gettysburg address. Alex jones is not an incredible speaker. i think that the next possibility that we have to dispense with is whether it's just normal mediocre people who believe stupid things but they somehow got
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