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Antitrust: Engagement Loops (are ruining the world)

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Politics and Social Media - The Opponents of the Right and Left

We have an attention economy that's rewarding people who revoking the greatest amount of negative emotion on line, and then using that to boost their status. So with politics, we've seen this play out as parties have moved more and more to the polar opposite ends of the spectrum. The media itself has leveraged the same strategy in order to break through the noise. And politicians are encouraged to focus on what divides us rather than what unites us because it's those issues that divide us that reward them with visibility.

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