Stranger than Fiction — with Claire Wardle
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Is There a Way to Scale Globally?
In Cambridge Analytica's psychological targeting, that one thing they found was that people who have the psychological characteristic of neuroticism always respond to fear. So if you just think about it that way, that you have this system that rewards fear over calm truth, then it's sort of obvious to see why you would get kind of authoritarian people everywhere all at once. And to your earlier point, this is the largest unregulated psychological experiment done in history. Where's the IRB Review Board? Where's the people who said who could be hurt by this experiment?
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