How To Build an Atomic Bomb

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Argues that social platforms function like Twitter as an atomic bomb, citing Trump tweets left unmoderated and Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica hearing as evidence that profit beats safety; claims Fortune values Trump at ~$2 billion to Twitter. Gives concrete failures: blocking took Twitter a year, Facebook rewrote its real‑names rules, and Volkswagen engineer James Lange 40 months goes to jail for deliberately cheating emissions tests. Ends with ten actionable ethical rules for designers and a call to refuse work that harms people.

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1. 0:00Introduction and context
2. 2:48Twitter’s inaction on nuclear threats
3. 7:58Platforms as dangerous weapons
4. 13:30Ethical responsibility of developers
5. 18:17Ten steps for ethical design
6. 47:20Call to action and conclusion

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