It’s likely that these days there’s no more profitable way to get ready for general elections than going to the movies. Probablemente cerca de sus casas haya carteles anunciando la reciente estreno de El precio de la red, una película escrita y dirigida por Aaron Sorkin. The movie is based on a true story, that of Facebook data engineer Frances Haugen, whom we have talked about in this column before. In 2020, worried by the lack of action from Facebook’s leaders regarding the damages their algorithms were causing in electoral processes, social polarization, or adolescent health, Haugen took 22,000 internal documents from the company and leaked them to Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his series of articles exposing Facebook’s dark side. These revelations form the evidentiary record that has supported many of the claims filed by institutions or parents against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, worldwide. Read on.
Elected politicians come, govern for a few years, and disappear, while technology founders like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, or Peter Thiel can maintain control for decades.
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