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Is Technology at War With Democracy?

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With rampant disinformation online and deep fakes lurking on political campaign trails, is digital technology becoming a threat to democracy? On this episode of Zoom In Zoom Out, TaiwanPlus reporter Chris Gorin sits down with Glen Weyl, an economist at Microsoft Research. Glen also coauthored a new book with Taiwan’s former Digital Minister Audrey Tang called “Plurality,” which argues that tech and democracy are more friends than foe. We first zoom out on Glen‘s principle of “plurality,” then zoom in on how it can be implemented in practice.