If Facebook controls your mind, so do a lot of other tech companies

Can Facebook’s algorithms control our population and politics? Yes, and it is uniquely bad, says François Chollet, an artificial intelligence researcher at Google and author of the well-known machine learning library Keras. But in hyping up the power of AI, he is underestimating how hard it is to change our minds, and the distinction he makes between Facebook and other tech companies is weak.
In a widely shared Twitter thread, Chollet argues that Facebook is capable of “mass