In the digital age, evil has found new disguises. It doesn’t always wear a black hat or cackle from a volcano lair. Sometimes, it looks like a recommendation algorithm pushing conspiracy theories because outrage keeps people clicking. Sometimes, it’s a data broker selling your location history to the highest bidder, no questions asked. And sometimes, it’s a faceless corporation designing features specifically to hook your kids, knowing full well the damage it’s doing.
That’s your social media feed’s content moderation team, working from a flowchart that deletes a genocide survivor’s documentation while letting hate speech slide because “it didn’t technically violate policy 14.3(b).” In the digital age, evil has found new disguises
Second, start asking boring questions about the systems you participate in. Who profits when this feature works as designed? Who gets hurt? Who gets to say “not my department”? Sometimes, it’s a data broker selling your location