How Facebook Persuasive Tools Can Make a Difference in an Election

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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

Paris Marx is joined by Cory Doctorow to discuss how the problems we associate with Big Tech aren’t the result of mind-control systems, but corporation consolidation. Cory argues we need to stop buying the overblown sales pitch, stop collecting so much data, and enforce antitrust legislation against the tech monopolies.

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His most recent non-fiction book, “How to Defeat Surveillance Capitalism,” is available for free at OneZero. You can also preorder his next fiction book, “Attack Surface,” on Kickstarter or anywhere else books are sold. Cory has a daily blog at Pluralistic.net and you can follow him on Twitter as @doctorow.

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.

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