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Optimizing for outrage: ex-Obama digital chief urges curbs on big tech

Michael Slaby calls Facebook and Google ‘two gorillas’ crushing the creativity needed to combat online conspiracy theories

A former digital strategist for Barack Obama has demanded an end to big tech’s profit-driven optimization of outrage and called for regulators to curb online disinformation and division.

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Originally posted in the guardian.