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Feb. 17, 2021
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A decade ago, the consensus was that the digital revolution would give effective voice to millions of previously unheard citizens. Now, in the aftermath of the Trump presidency, the consensus has shifted to anxiety that onlinebehemoths like Twitter, Google, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook have created a crisis of knowledge confounding what is true and what is untrue eroding the foundations of democracy.
These worries have intensified in response to the violence of Jan. 6, and the widespread acceptance among Republican voters of the conspicuously false claim that Democrats stole the election.
the widely shared utopian vision of the internet’s impact on governance has turned decidedly pessimistic. The original promise of digital technologies was unapologetically democratic: empowering the voiceless, breaking down borders to build cross-national communities, and eliminating elite referees who restricted political discourse.
talked to hundreds of women and some men in the making of this book is how much time people spend online to your point about data matching with someone who they think they know and then they have extraordinary text and flirty conversation which most people find fun. and they can have up to 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 flirty exchanges on texts before they go and meet someone. then had they meet someone, the person is completely different from who they thought they were talking to. but isn t that natural? we re creating profiles of our best selves that aren t actually who we are. but also what s fascinating and i cite the work of mary aikens, the psychology gift in the book, is what happens when you re talking to a stranger online and what happens in a computer mediated situation, if you fill in the blanks with positive attributes, it s just what in fact terms that people do, so you end up meeting someone who s a stranger of whom
discoverable before the crash you can get it after the crash. but our hands are kind of tied given that we re dealing with malaysia. and the concept of the free press in malaysia is really very different from what it is in the united states. well, malaysia doesn t really have a free and open press. and that is why the family members are happy that we re there to press authorities to get more answers. jim, here is a question that needs an answer about the boeing 777. the triple 7. it is one of the most reliable airplanes built with computer-mediated controls. what if this technology has failed? do you believe it can stem from a problem with this airplane, or is it something else entirely? obviously, i don t know exactly what happened. but i have to tell you i would be shocked to find that there was anything wrong with that airplane. i mean, the the boeing people know how to build an airplane. and this one, i think, has served extremely well over the past decade.