Johann Hari: Reclaiming Our Stolen Focus
A Life of Greatness
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What They Didn't Say, So Let's Ban All Pan Right?
Social media is designed to hack and evade our attention. But just like you could have paint that doesn't have lead in it, you can have social media that isn't designed that way. Everything you do on these aps is being scanned and sorted by their artificial intelligence algaritms to learn about you. That's partly so they can sell your your attention to advertisers, right? You're not the customer. You're the product they sell to advertisers. If an advertiser is selling nappies, they want a target, someonewho's got a baby, not someone who does'
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