The myth of brand community in the age of data agency

January 13, 2026

The myth of brand community in the age of data agency

Dirty data damaged marketing — not because it was messy or incomplete, but because it trained systems to misunderstand people with confidence. Partial signals were treated as truth. Inference replaced intent. Surveillance masqueraded as insight. And an entire economy was built on the comforting lie that activity equals meaning. Clean data makes something different possible.

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