people. So I'm curious, how do you view that framing and how similar or different is it to how you view the problem? I appreciate hearing you lay this out. It's interesting for me to hear, and I think what you just said, particularly at the end there is very sharp, and that's exactly right, that the power of these platforms is so vast and so determinative of underlying social realities and the way in which they control not only the pillars of the political economy at this point, but also they control the arena in which social life occurs, not just politics, dating, routine interaction, and I avoid the terms disinformation and misinformation. There's a reason why in this very long essay I just wrote, I never do what is sort of the standard pro forma move in all of these pieces and define disinformation versus misinformation. The reason why I don't do that is that I think that they are airstots, technical signifiers. They have no real meaning beyond the ways in which they serve the (31/44)
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