'Neuropolitics' Consultants and Hacking
How 'neuropolitics' consultants hack into voters’ brains, and why Facebook still cannot shake hate speech in Myanmar.
Click talks to Maria Pocovi, the founder of Emotion Research Lab in Valencia, Spain, and the science writer Elizabeth Svoboda about the rise of 'neuropolitics': the use of technology to gauge the concerns of voters and to influence the direction in which they will vote.
Facebook has been accused of not doing enough to halt the rise of hate speech directed at the Rohingya people on its platform. Click talks to reporter Aela Callan about her research in Myanmar on this subject and how she tried to alert Facebook.
The curator of a new exhibition at the V&A in London joins Click to explore the design and culture of contemporary videogames. Marie Foulston discusses how the show charts design in games and its remarkable innovations.
Image: Businessman holding brain and light bulb with global networking connection (Credit: Getty Images)
Producer: Colin Grant
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How 'neuropolitics' aims to hack into voters’ brains
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