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social media were conceived to encourage exactly this wrapped sharing behavior and entrenched information asymmetry... one of my biggest influences for qbase came from the research publications of companies like OkCupid and Facebook. they were the first public acknowledgement of the power imbalance between the platform and the user, but also showed us what insights were possible–at both the personal and societal level. instead of willingly ceding our data to these companies and becoming proselytizers of systems that feed on us, WE should own our data and the knowledge and power that comes from it. loading | ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▰╍ 90% https://blog.primr.org/okcupid-ethics-big-data-research/

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