January 29, 2026 | Benjamin Daniel
‘Hit record’
MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle, who studies technology and the internet, spoke with NBC News about smartphones and their use as tools to document the Trump administration’s immigration efforts. “No longer attached to activism in community associations or local parties, so many people feel that all they can do when angry, outraged, now appalled, is share an image. It is a new political ecosystem,” she says.
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