The day after I got off camp, I was contacted by a progressive organization, Brand New Congress, which was seeking to mount non-corporate candidates in the 2018 midterm.
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Without campaigning for it, Ocasio-Cortez won the primary as a in a neighboring congressional district, , with a total vote count of nine, highest among all 22 write-in candidates.
And this is not an academic issue: as algorithms control increasingly large parts of our lives, it is a problem with devastating real-world consequences.