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330 w/ Antonio Garcia Martínez "Would Apple Hire Steve Jobs, Conservatives Hate Big Tech"

The Fifth Column

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Is Facebook Through the Election at 20 20?

The peril is to overstate the power of social media and its influence in our life. I don't think that people who see a bunch of anti vax articles on facebook are like, oh, my god, i didn't know. And yes, that does happen to some people who go around the bend, but they've been going around the bend for thousands of years. It's just inthe function of age, boredom, tribalism. You know, literally, all your friends are gone. Theres you no maliciousr kind of thas people go through this stuff, and you don't need the facebook for it to exist. But yoonow, i get that. There

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