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Oct 2023
38m 34s

Tech Bros Laid the Foundation, But Women...

Vulture & New York Magazine
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The story of social media has usually been told from the perspective of tech bros, set to a soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz argues in her new book, Extremely Online, that the real protagonists of the story are actually the users, who figured out what these platforms were best at before the people who inven ... Show More
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