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At the moment there is a fundamental clash between your interests—to be able to focus, to have friends you see offline, to be able to discuss things calmly—and the interests of the social-media companies.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
In the late aughts, Twitter and Facebook still valued curiosity, but over the next decade they realized that it wasn't good for business; curiosity brought people to their platforms, but then it whisked them away. So Facebook began paying news companies to make videos that could be hosted on the site, so that users would never leave the page. Twitt
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This would mean, he explained, that the government would ban any business model that tracks you online in order to figure out your weaknesses and then sells that private data to the highest bidder so they can change your behavior.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
At a far pole from accountable public trust, or constitutional duty, Hoover corrupted the FBI to wage political war.
Taylor Branch • At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
As Justice William Douglas would later put it, “power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy.”
Tim Wu • The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
Kushner and Loeffler: mirror images, elongated, slim-suited, self-seeking dilettantes who entered politics at the highest level because of wealth they never had to earn. Kushner gained admission to Harvard and New York University through his father’s multimillion-dollar donations, married into another fortune, became a slumlord, failed in both news
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