Dear Playboy

July / August, 2016

DEAR PLAYBOY«TRANSPARENCYThe U.S. government’s social media is in some ways insidious, but at least it’s usually well labeled (Big Brother Wants to Be Your Friend, May). If you follow @CIA, complete with its Twitter-verified seal of approval, you know you’re interacting with an intelligence agency. In other countries that’s not always the case. China pays massive teams of censors and commenters. Israel employs counter-narrative teams to edit Wikipedia and correct “misconceptions” about the count...