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Continuing dangers: Social media, illiberal education, politics as show business, unbounded bureaucracies.

“…This myopia is not shared by those lower on the economic hierarchy, who often see themselves as targets rather than beneficiaries of these systems. 5 Similarly, Safiya Umoja Noble 6 argued that, far from being neutral, the Internet embodies and magnifies the racism and group-based inequalities of the larger society. This becomes clear when we conduct searches using key phrases such as Black men rather than White men, or Black women rather than White women, and reach very different results in terms of larger implications, reflecting various stereotypes and biases in the larger society.…”