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Big Tech Has Taken a Page Out of the Big Tobacco Playbook

Silicon Valley’s funding of academic research and lobbying are reminiscent of another Big T’s efforts half a century ago.

In 1912, Dr Isaac Adler published what was the first piece of literature suggesting a link between smoking and lung cancer. And while a steady flow of findings…

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