
The Inside Story of How Silicon Valley Rewired Our Brains
Offline with Jon Favreau
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Social Media Is Not Real Life
Social media is now the new public square. It's going to bring a bunch of people together and some of those people are going to be extremists, just like they are in life. What you are actually seeing are the choices made by the systems on those platforms. They're showing you a tiny percentage of what's on there that these very powerful algorithms have selected and ordered in a specific way. This is something they do very deliberately to manipulate your emotions and to manipulate your cognition to get you to spend more time on the platforms. And not only that, but, i mean, it's very tricky, because you see posts from real people. Nd maybe tey're people you know,
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