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Aram Sinnreich

Led Zeppelin, photographed in 1973. (Getty Images)

Plagiarists or innovators? The Led Zeppelin paradox endures

Aram Sinnreich
FILE - This Nov. 4, 2013, file photo shows the sign outside of Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Twitter announced Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, that the company is struggling to convert its headline omnipresence into cash and its profit expectations going forward is sending investors scattering. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) (AP)

To serve a free society, social media must evolve beyond data mining

Aram Sinnreich, Barbara Romzek
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Social media companies should ditch clickbait, and compete over trustworthiness

Barbara Romzek, Aram Sinnreich