
Nir Eyal: Changing Habits For Good
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Social Media Is a Bigger Distributor of Misinformation
"The press is always normally dealing with extremes doesn't deal with the happy middle because that's right well and there's two other things you know either extreme anger or extreme happiness right," he says. "It's competition okay it's competition so the New York Times and CNN and Fox News and all these media old media companies are in direct competition with social media." He goes on to say how society needs time to pass through to digest these moral panics and figure out that technologies can be sources of good. 'I believe at least that the exchange of free information in a free society is a very good thing now it comes with problems'
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