Monday 27 November 2017

“Technology is Not Neutral” – How Online Companies Manipulate Billions of Minds

a post by David Crotty for The Scholarly Kitchen blog

The societal and personal damage inflicted by unregulated technology companies is rapidly becoming evident.

As Justin Rosenstein, the engineer who created the Facebook “like” button notes, “One reason I think it is particularly important for us to talk about this now is that we may be the last generation that can remember life before [smartphones and social media].” Rosenstein is among a group of ex-Facebook and Google employees leading the backlash after seeing what their well-meaning but naïve work has become.

Continue reading You can link to further information as well as watching a video which sets out the issues clearly.



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