Eli Pariser
Eli Pariser
Eli Pariseris the chief executive of Upworthy, a website for "meaningful" viral content. He is a left-wing political and internet activist, the board president of MoveOn.org and a co-founder of Avaaz.org...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth17 December 1980
CountryUnited States of America
thinking citizens want
I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.
thinking needs want
The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see.
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Together, we can answer this question. If you've been holding off on contributing to a presidential campaign, now's the time to jump in. We have a Democratic nominee, and he needs our support today.
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There is no information to indicate she meets the high bar necessary for the next justice on the Supreme Court.
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The important thing to remember with the Internet is that there are large companies that have an interest in controlling how information flows in it. They're very effective at lobbying Congress, and that pattern has locked down other communication media in the past. And it will happen again unless we do something about it.
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If you look at the history of how information flows, there was a time that newspapers were kind of in the place that Google and Facebook are now - how do we get more people to buy a copy? Then there was a shift in the early 20th century. They needed to do better, and readers and consumers demanded that of them.
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I think that people post to social media to help shape their public identity.
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Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.
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Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.
self people world
It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you – that closes the loop on pecuniary self-interest. Customers are always right, but people aren't.
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The algorithms that orchestrate our ads are starting to orchestrate our lives.
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Personalization is based on a bargain. In exchange for the service of filtering, you hand large companies an enormous amount of data about your daily life--much of whic you might not trust your friends with.
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In the last year, grassroots contributors like us gave more than $300 million to the Kerry campaign and the DNC, and proved that the Party doesn't need corporate cash to be competitive. Now it's our Party: we bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.
politics
We bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.