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How Were Social Media Platforms So Unprepared For 'Fake News' And Foreign Influence?

 July 9, 2019

Silicon Valley is still at the end of the day ruled by technologists guided by technological determinism and who lack the adult supervision and diversity of viewpoints to understand the existential ways in which society shapes their platforms and harnesses them for bad as well as good.

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