Thread · 2 tweets · 17 Apr 2021

That's my concern as well. Are we illegible enough for an adversary that has millions of data points about billions of us? What happens to societal complexity when the editorial infrastructure that shapes our access to information comes from 2-3 relatively simple algorithms?

I wish I could work on this full time. I know there's some literature on this (I have the cognitive democracy stuff from @henryfarrell with Cosma Shalizi or Bruce Schneier lined up) but there's a lot we need to know, ideally rather quickly.