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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

How corporations got all your data

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Power of Data and Algorithms in Democracy

I don't know what scares me is the extent to which the public has been fractured and atomized. In so many ways, it feels like the modern world is a deliberately engineered collective action problem. And I think it is going to involve actually occasionally taking sort of a really kind of cynical approach to the different interests of different actors.

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