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Moral metrics: Are corporate algorithms becoming our new moral authorities?

Scores are ubiquitous today, from data in parenting apps to fitness monitors. For some users, those scores start to shape a sense of right and wrong.

19.03.2026 7

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Beth Dufault

Science has always been marketed, from 18th-century coffeehouse demos of Newton’s ideas to today’s TikTok explainers

Science has always been part of a marketplace of ideas, where claims vie for audiences, resources and belief, and where power, persuasion and status...

15.12.2025 10

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Beth Dufault