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<title><![CDATA[John Herrman - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/26357.xml</link><description><![CDATA[John Herrman]]></description><category domain="26357">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Meta's Reckoning]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/tech-companies/meta-s-reckoning/ar-AA2bImtY</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Herrman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three years ago, dozens of states jointly sued Meta, alleging it had designed its technology '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'to entice, engage, and ultimately ensnare'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' young users. At stake, the lawsuit said, was no less than the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'mental and physical health of our nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s youth.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hey, Your AI Is Showing]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/MdOgH</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Herrman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s obvious to anyone with an internet connection that AI-generated content is all over the place. Still, case-by-case determinations are often difficult to make. For every piece of unapologetic copy-and-paste chatbot content, there'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a student essay with a style that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Zuckerberg's Awkward Pivot to AI Optimism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mark-zuckerberg-s-awkward-pivot-to-ai-optimism/ar-AA2a1ecF</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Herrman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For what feels like a long time now, the big AI companies have been talking about how future versions of their technology could destroy millions of jobs or escape control in ways that pose dire risks to humanity.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Singularity Is Going Viral]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/artificial-intelligence/the-singularity-is-going-viral/ar-AA1WgYUx</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Herrman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the space of a day, two AI stories broke into the mainstream. They were, in different ways and from different insider perspectives, about the same thing: becoming suddenly, and profoundly, worried about the future.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[All Those Super Bowl Ads on AI Were a Strange Mess]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/all-those-super-bowl-ads-about-ai-were-a-strange-and-unsettling-mess/ar-AA1W0rTU</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Herrman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was a big tech Super Bowl, where even the ads that weren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t about AI were about AI. Svedka'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s AI-generated vodka ad went down'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' like a shot of warm slop, and a self-referential ad for Artlist, a stock media company in the process of pivoting to AI,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' bragged'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that it was made...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside the AI Bubble]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/inside-the-ai-bubble/ar-AA1QT2JT?ocid=hpmsn&amp;cvid=9371548876ef443bfc21ae02fd4f31b9&amp;ei=5</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Herrman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday evening, Nvidia, the chip firm at the center of the world, reported its quarterly earnings.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Google's Monopoly Isn't Going Anywhere]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/google-s-monopoly-isn-t-going-anywhere/ar-AA1MbAnN</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Herrman</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' concluded Judge Amit Mehta last year, in a significant ruling against the company. It had acted illegally to maintain a dominant position in search, Mehta concluded, with a variety of tactics, chief...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[TikTok's Final Appeal Didn't Go Too Well]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/tiktok-s-final-appeal-to-the-supreme-court-didn-t-go-too-well/ar-BB1rfz2Z?cvid=ccabffcf61c14ba89ed84b89d6acf681&amp;ei=9</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Herrman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The looming TikTok ban is barely a week away and the company is running out of time to do anything about it. On Friday, the Supreme Court heard last-minute arguments about the ban, with TikTok angling for an intervention or, at least, a temporary ruling to buy a bit more time. They...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Zuckerberg's Eternal Apology Tour]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/mark-zuckerberg-s-eternal-apology-tour/ar-AA1x822Q</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Herrman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In November 2016, Mark Zuckerberg wrote a post responding to intense post-election scrutiny about how Facebook was handling moderation. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'The bottom line is: We take misinformation seriously,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he wrote.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Donald Trump and Elon Musk Join Forces]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-american-right-is-terminally-online/ar-AA1oNbtK?ocid=BingNewsVerp</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Herrman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump and Elon Musk have joined forces. Or are they stuck together?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[TikTok Reaches for the Constitution]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/tiktok-reaches-for-the-constitution/ar-BB1m6sAa?cvid=2d351c5897f54f63b0ce25f76444be56&amp;ei=17</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Herrman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In April, President Biden signed a bill forcing TikTok'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s parent company, ByteDance, to either sell the platform or face a total ban. Now, the company is fighting back with a lawsuit. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'For the first time in history, Congress has enacted a law that subjects a single, named speech...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Musk and the Sad Mod Theory of Social-Media CEOs]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-and-the-sad-mod-theory-of-social-media-ceos/ar-AA16welB</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Herrman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You may technically run the place, but most of your users just see you as a glorified moderator.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Twitter Is Just a Guy Now]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/twitter-is-just-a-guy-now/ar-AA14sxep</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>John Herrman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the evening of Friday, November 18th, fresh off another chaotic week at the helm of Twitter, Elon Musk decided to resolve a nagging issue: the matter of Donald Trump. He posted a Twitter poll asking users whether he should bring back the former president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s account. By the next...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's Official: Meta Is a Disaster]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/it-s-official-meta-is-a-disaster/ar-AA13pVAJ</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Herrman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The dismal quarterly results make it clear that the company formerly known as Facebook is an absolute and total mess.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hate Groups Forced Online Platforms to Reveal True Nature]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/magazine/how-hate-groups-forced-online-platforms-to-reveal-their-true-nature.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Herrman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Internet companies annexed much of our public sphere, playacting as little democracies '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?? a charade they gave up last week.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Facebook's Insane, Hyperpartisan Political-Media Machine]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/magazine/inside-facebooks-totally-insane-unintentionally-gigantic-hyperpartisan-political-media-machine.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>John Herrman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Open your Facebook feed. What do you see? A photo of a close friend'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s child. An automatically generated slide show commemorating six years of friendship between two acquaintances. An eerily on-target ad for something you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve been meaning to buy. A funny video. A sad video. A...]]></description>
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