Social Media Is For Sock Puppets

State of the world and a reality check for the content offered by ur phone when it's not merely serving as a tracking & listening device . . . 

We’ve locked ourselves in the stupidest possible version of Plato’s cave, where what looks like the spontaneous consensus of the hive mind is often just shadows on the wall, put there by marketers, political operatives, foreign-influence campaigns, or anyone else with a few hundred bucks and something to sell. “Everybody is doing this now,” (consultant Joe) Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”

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The Feed Is Fake

What if every viral song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama in recent memory was the result of a stealth marketing campaign? A dive into the 'clipping' underworld.

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