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Barbara Romzek

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