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354 w/ Sarah Hepola "Barack's Misinformation Warfare Unit b/w Teenage Blackout "

The Fifth Column

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Is There Too Much Freedom?

I might never have been elected president if it hadn't been for websites like and i'm dating myself, my space, meet up and facebook that allowed an army of young volunteers to organ raise money. That's what elected me. And since then, we've all witnessed the ways that activists use social medea platforms to register dissent and shine a light on injustice. So the internet and the accompanying information revolution has been transformative, and there there's no turning back. But like all advances in technology, this progress has had unintended consequences. Its sometimes come at a price. Not all of these effects are intentional or even avoidable.

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