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How to Design Better Social Media

On designing social tools for society — A version published on Quartz can be found here. Data exploits affecting millions, election hacking, the death of newspapers, weaponized propaganda, troll armies, deepening polarization and the shaky future of democracy itself. …

Social Media

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How to Design Better Social Media
How to Design Better Social Media
Social Media

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Jul 14, 2017

This Is How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit

The story of how one metric has changed the way you see the world — The world feels more dangerous. Our streets seem less safe. The assault on our values is constant. The threats feel real. The enemy is out there — just check your feed. One evening in late October 2014, a doctor checked his own pulse and stepped onto a subway car in…

Media

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This Is How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit
This Is How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit
Media

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Nov 11, 2016

How We Broke Democracy

Our technology has changed this election, and is now undermining our ability to empathize with each other — 2019 note from the author: Though the sentiment remains valid, this article no longer represents the best research on what is causing systemic division in society. For more thorough representation, please read my more recent articles. The thing that has become the most clear to us this election year is…

Social Media

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How We Broke Democracy (But Not in the Way You Think)
How We Broke Democracy (But Not in the Way You Think)
Social Media

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Jun 20, 2014

Our Hero and Heroine Addictions

Reconsidering why we give in the wake of Somaly Mam. — Consider these two stories: — I— A young man growing up poor in the countryside of a developing country is beaten, sold into slavery and forced into a life of a hard labor. He lives through much trauma and eventually escapes, founding an organization dedicated to preventing the violence and horror…

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Our Hero and Heroine Addictions
Our Hero and Heroine Addictions

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