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They\u2019re hired by Silicon Valley leaders like Facebook and Google to do \u201cdigital cleaning,&#8221; content moderators who are paid to sift through and remove what they deem as inappropriate content on the internet, thereby influencing what people around the world see and think. Told in the sinister style of a neon, cyberpunk thriller, <\/span><b><i>The Cleaners<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> charts social media\u2019s evolution from a shared vision of a global village to a dangerous web of fake news, extremism and radicalization.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Delete&#8230;Ignore&#8230;Delete\u2026 Ignore\u2026&#8221; Someone is out there censoring your social media feed. Do their decisions distort your understanding of the world as much as clever hoaxes and &#8220;fake news&#8221;? 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