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The Importance of Trust in a Republic and Its Increasing Vulnerability to Big Tech

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The Importance of Trust in a Republic and Its Increasing Vulnerability to Big Tech
A picture taken on September 4, 2019 shows logos of US social networking websites Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, displayed on smart-phone screen, in Lille, northern France. DENIS CHARLET/AFP/Getty Images
Clifford Humphrey
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It’s impossible to overstate the importance of trust for friendship. Likewise, it’s impossible to overstate the importance of friendship for our personal lives and for the life of a healthy, self-governing republic.

Clifford Humphrey
Clifford Humphrey
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Clifford Humphrey is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America and the Director of Admissions for Thales College. He holds a PhD in politics from Hillsdale College, and he resides in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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