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Zeynep Tufekci: Facebook and Engineering the Public & Lawrence Lessig Cleaning Elections

July 3, 2014

Good morning everyone! On today’s show Professor Zenep Tufekci (@zeynep) on her new piece Facebook and Engineering the Public, read it here! Also an interview from Sam’s Ring of Fire radio show with Lawrence Lessig (@lessig) on his may Day PAC to end all PACs. Tune in at noon!

Today’s YouTube Livestream: http://bit.ly/1zaxQnu

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