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John Flowers
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Writer, Anderson Cooper 360°
Milford, New York
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Politics , Technology , Social
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By John Flowers Verified, Tao Lin, Rick Strassman, Bernard Sheu| Countere@ Art by Tanzanian Wojak Damn these algorithms. It can feel sometimes like the whole wide world of knowledge is penned inside tech monoliths like Wikipedia, Facebook, and whatever boundaries the “fact-checkers” establish—anything outside of that is immediately perceived as pseudoscience, fake news, scary.
By John Flowers Verified| Middlebury Campus Verified My, how time flies. The summer of 1990 seems like only yesterday. That’s when I joined the Addison Independent and was promptly thrown into the deep end of the political pool during a very interesting election cycle. The former mayor of Burlington, Progressive Bernie Sanders, was challenging incumbent U.S. Rep. Peter Smith (R-Vt). These days, you need to negotiate with Bernie’s handlers and squirm through crowds of supporters to get now-U.S. Sen. Sanders’s attention for the shortest of interviews.
By John Flowers Verified, Zachary Emmanuel, Bernard Sheu, Lucy Brown| Countere@ Fuck these algorithms. Recommended music on Spotify is just what major record labels are pushing. Important writers and artists are banned from Twitter every day. Aggregators like Apple or Google News show what is designed to outrage. Sometimes, it can feel like the whole world of knowledge—beyond what the universities or Wikipedia deemed “factual”—has been closed off, only to be found in used bookstores or great conversations. The idea of a free internet is over.
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Anderson Cooper 360°