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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

Facebook, like Google, is an advertising company. Thiel, who lamented women’s suffrage in a 2009 article for the Cato Institute, has been well-known in Silicon Valley as a libertarian, and some observers struggled to explain why Thiel would back an authoritarian for president. Spoiler alert : capitalism.