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Johann Hari Unboxing | Stolen Focus Why You Can't Pay Attention
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Is There a Mechanism That Promotes Bullying?
I was bullied on social media and then having to face the actual kids, they were bullying me online at school. So I kind of went into my own shell because of social media. There's a mechanism I think is really worth thinking about in social media that promotes bullying that we can deal with. And it's related to this wider attention problem. Everything you do on social media is scanned and sorted by their artificial intelligence algorithms to figure out who you are. They've got tens of thousands of data points like that, but they know who you are - partly because they want to sell your attention to advertisers so they can target you. Just like the head of KFC, all he cares about
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