Saturday, June 30, 2012

Technology - Alexis Madrigal - The Radical Optimism of Eric Schmidt - The Atlantic

Technology - Alexis Madrigal - The Radical Optimism of Eric Schmidt - The Atlantic: ""All of us grew up with an assumption that what we were seeing on television, especially in legitimate news, was edited and properly vetted. That's no longer the case. Furthermore, you can anticipate very powerful forces will attempt to do misinformation campaigns to you for one business objective or another," he said. "It will be worth it to them to spend millions of dollars to spend millions of dollars to create fake websites and so forth to convince you that something that is really bad for you is really good for you. Because they have a business interest to do so and the Internet allows that.""

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