john stuart mill
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Facebook is a video game for adults
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1 min read
Facebook is a video game for adults. The social network specializes in goading emotional responses that dupe the older crowd into thinking they are legitimate purveyors of news. The reality is imperfect. Technology companies compel people to spread misinformation that emboldens preexisting echo chambers. A post-fact society threatens the plurality of opinion so fundamental to healthy democracies.…
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Losing the freedom of mind
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2 min read
Lost, gone, vanished. Our short-attention spans attend to media manipulation. Yet, we are the purveyors of news. We can spread a thought or opinion on the internet without the slightest veracity, a task only governments used to be able to do. But we no longer think for ourselves. Our thoughts are almost always somebody else’s.…