Data Autonomy Course: Social Media

Our next installment of the Data Autonomy course will cover social media. We will explain how platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok weaponize addictive algorithms to captivate users, while simultaneously creating detailed personality profiles to deliver highly targeted ads. What started as the promise of personal interconnectedness on the web is now an industry where our attention and personal data generates hundreds of billions of dollars for companies like Meta.

We will introduce alternatives like Mastodon, which offers a fundamentally different vision of community-oriented and decentralized social media without ads or surveillance.

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