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Re:'Conservatives Will Cease to Exist Online' Speakers Fret ... by defertoreptar on Saturday February 29, 2020 @10:02AM (#22450869)
Companies have always supported candidates and political parties of their liking with political contributions. What's different now is that these companies can now contribute not just with money, but by influencing the online discussion we see and the search results we get.
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Re:'Conservatives Will Cease to Exist Online' Speakers Fret ... by AlchemistCamp on Saturday February 29, 2020 @10:06AM (#22450890)
Yes. I see the current tech giants as analogous to a Standard Oil that also owned the New York Times and one of the top two or three papers in every other city of the country.
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