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Dollars, Data, and Democracy

Lucy Bernholz

11 Nov 2013

Thanks to Tom Watson at Forbes for this article on the new Digital Civil Society Lab I'm co-leading at Stanford.

He's exactly right - we're looking at dollars, data and democracy.

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It's a hoax

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