David Beer looks at various apsects of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and considers some solutions to the problems posed by social media.
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David Beer: The power of our social media data
Geopolitics
Eldar Mamedov: Azerbaijan is already friendly with Israel. Why the push to ‘normalize’?
Smells like another pressure campaign against Iran. Read HERE Ilham Aliyev, president of Azerbaijan, Photo: Creative Commons
Corruption
Kyiv Independent: Anti-money laundering watchdog refuses to blacklist Russia as Moscow cozies up to Iran, North Korea
After days of discussions, the world’s leading anti-money laundering watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), opted last week not to blacklist Russia despite efforts from Kyiv Read HERE Image: Ethanf711/Creative Commons
Finance
Robert Hockett: Why Is Uber Über Alles? Public Platform Infrastructure for the ‘Gig Economy’
Most of the platform infrastructure used by the ‘gig economy’ is both easy to replicate and cheap to provide, such that private providers are mere rent-extractors. The upshot is that we both can and should […]
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