
Social Media & the National Security State with Alan MacLeod
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The Origins of Social Media
CNN's John Sutter says social media was always going to happen. But who rises to the top of the pile is not necessarily completely random, he says. Google really fundamentally started as a CIA project, according to an investigation by Dr. Nafiz Ahmed. The CIA actually held shares in Google and eventually sold them; they're now owned by Facebook.
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