Here is some non-basketball content I read or listened to this week that I found interesting:
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How A Massive Facebook Scam Siphoned Millions Of Dollars From Unsuspecting Boomers - “If a Facebook ad reviewer were to click the link, they would likely be taken to a “safe page,” often a hastily thrown-together food blog. But the average person would be taken to a different page engineered to make them hand over their credit card number.”
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Facebook isn’t free speech, it’s algorithmic amplification optimized for outrage - “As we’ve all seen, “optimizing for engagement” all too often means optimizing for outrage, for polarization, for disingenuous misinformation. True, it doesn’t mean favoring any side of any given issue; but it does mean favoring the extremes, the conspiracy theorists, the histrionic diatribes on all sides. It means fomenting mistrust, suspicion, and conflict everywhere.”