I wrote a long essay on Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and the upcoming federal election for the September edition of Australian Book Review. The title of the piece is ‘The Manichaean Candidate’.
I hate the sound of my voice but here’s me reading the essay on the ABR podcast.
Australian Book Review’s editor, Peter Rose, asked me to read my review of An Ugly Truth, the Facebook expose by New York Times journalists Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang.
I was happy to oblige because it’s a good book about an important issue: how power works in this new gilded age.
You can listen to the podcast at the ABR here.
I have the cover story in the September edition of Australian Book Review.
Here’s a taste:
Facebook was never about hacking computers. It was always about hacking data; bending people instead of software. Its modus operandi is to hoover up as much digital information as possible about as many people as possible, algorithmically tweak that data to predict and shift human behaviour, and, in the process, make money.