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“How Mark Zucked America.”

Pod Save America

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Is Facebook Trying to Stop Extremism?

Facebook has plenty of tools to fight extremism, and we know that because they have used some of them on certain occasions. There's a more fundamental design flaw here, which is that the algorithm continues to push people towards polarizing, radicalizing content or to join groups there ye there's a philosopher who talks about something caled an intuition pump. And i think all the time, facebook tries to use these intuition pumps, which is, in some ways what they want us to about. Facebook is like kind of an inert bulletin board for society, right? It's no different than a cork board hanging in a coffee shop somewhere,. But it's, of course, become the sophisticated operation for

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