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My guest today is Sinan Aral, the David Austin Professor of Management, Marketing, IT, and Data Science at MIT; director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy; and head of MIT’s Social Analytics Lab. He is an active entrepreneur and venture capitalist who served as chief scientist at several startups; co-founded Manifest Capital, a VC fund.
The topic is his book The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health–and How We Must Adapt.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Gatekeepers
- Republicans and Democrats
- Polarization
- Social Media
- Facebook and Free Speech
- Social Brain Hypothesis
- The Impact of Social Media on Children
- Russian Interference
- China and Russia
Mentions & Resources:
- Sinan Aral
- The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health–and How We Must Adapt
- Levi Strauss & Co.
- AT&T
- K. Anders Ericsson
- Netflix
- Impeachment of Bill Clinton
- www.sinanaral.io/books
- @sinanaral
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