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Episode: Giant Ideas
Description: Business
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In Giant Ideas this week, Nick Clegg - former UK Deputy Prime Minister - challenges some of the biggest assumptions about social media, such as whether it really drives political polarisation to how much evidence actually backs that claim. Drawing on his time inside Meta, he explains how content moderation is managed, why headlines push debates more than real data, and how social platforms have shifted from connecting friends to algorithm-driven content feeds. He also warns that...