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Karen Hao

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How Facebook Got Addicted to Spreading Misinformation

The company’s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can’t fix the problem.

Karen Hao MIT Technology Review Mar 2021 30min Permalink