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Spotlight — The Facebook Files with Tristan Harris, Frank Luntz, and Daniel Schmachtenberger

Your Undivided Attention

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The Role of the Fourth Estate in the Formation of Democracy

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

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