We don't need a small, educated nobility who rules everybody, because everyone can have access to text books and newspaper. How do you remake a democracy post internet network age? Because people can't do shared choice making if they don't have a basis for shared sense making of what's going on. So when you have an innernet where there's radically more informaton, then anyone could begin to parse. What information you see ends at being determined by curation processes. And so it's not like we respond as rational actors to the best information. We respond to whatever utubes algarithm and face books algarithms put in front of me based on a business model that
On September 13th, the Wall Street Journal released The Facebook Files, an ongoing investigation of the extent to which Facebook's problems are meticulously known inside the company — all the way up to Mark Zuckerberg. Pollster Frank Luntz invited Tristan Harris along with friend and mentor Daniel Schmachtenberger to discuss the implications in a live webinar.
In this bonus episode of Your Undivided Attention, Tristan and Daniel amplify the scope of the public conversation about The Facebook Files beyond the platform, and into its business model, our regulatory structure, and human nature itself.