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102: Shoshana Zuboff & Roger McNamee on Surveillance Capitalism

The Al Franken Podcast

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Is Facebook a Good Example of Surveillance Capitalism?

Shoshana Jafari: 17% of Americans now believe what QAnon tells us, which is that there are powerful people. She says Facebook created a system built around attention where the best way to grab attention is to scare the hell out of people. "Their model is they know you better than you know yourself," she says.

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