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Losing Our Shared Reality Through Personalization with Prof. Joseph Turow
Personalization may be more dangerous than fake news. Fake news can be challenged in public. A reality built exclusively for you is nearly impossible to compare, debate, or even recognize. Professor Joseph Turow explains how media manipulation evolved from 19th-century peddlers and patent medicine ads into AI influencers, retail surveillance, smart TVs, and news feeds capable of changing reality person by person. This conversation is about power, propaganda, data privacy, digital resignation, and the slow disappearance of a shared world. We ask what human freedom looks like when frictionless…
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