Best Long-Reads of the Week, 6/4/22
Is social media bad for us, Zelensky thoughts on the IT army, Have you read all of your apps' privacy policies, the FBI tried to ambush a journalist's source who wanted to spill the beans on NSA, more
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The New Yorker’s Gideon Lewis-Kraus looks at how harmful social media is to society and finds, surprisingly, that the popular opinion that social media is bad for us isn’t backed up by science…yet. (However, another New Yorker piece this week, two book reviews from Kyle Chayka, makes the case that social media traps users in a “race to the bottom.”)
Geoffrey Cain in Wired scored an interview coup with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which the heroic head of state talks about his skilled social media usage, persuading tech companies to end their opera…
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