From Russia with Likes (Part 1) — with Renée DiResta
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Social Media Algorithms Are Amplifying Conscience
As a parent as a person who was fighting to get that bill passed I was in no way neutral on this whatsoever just to be clear. There is a really strange distribution by which 10 participants in the hashtag were dominating the hashtag and that's because there would be these accounts that would just be kind of on 24-7. So it was really interesting to see that that divide and even if you look at vaccination rates in California you would still see that you know 85% or so were still vaccinating their kids but if you were to look at the social media conversation it seemed like nobody was anymoreit was all done. But we did not want the platforms to be the arbiters of truth and
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