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The Darker Side of Aaron Swartz

By Larissa MacFarquhar · The New Yorker · March 2013

The Darker Side of Aaron Swartz

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"The computer programmer who helped develop Reddit was brilliant and beloved. But the people who knew him best saw another side. Larissa MacFarquhar reports."

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