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FBL108: Tobias Rose-Stockwell - The Outrage Machine

The Singularity Discussion Series

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The Push to Get People to Outrage

Do you think there is more push to get people to be outraged or is there something happening there that is just a part of human nature? You know what I mean? Is it just the fact that we do pay attention to outrage more because that's what we do or do you think the algorithms do have something and then are pushing us in that direction because it's a good business model? Yeah. It makes very clear sense to me why something like social media would capture so much of our attention because we are obsessed with each other. We are deeply obsessed with where we are in relationship to other people, why other people are doing. And these tools have just kind of turned up what are threats

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