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What Keeps People Scrolling?
Facebook's business model is to keep people scrolling, right? T, minute you stop scrowling, they lose money. All their algaritms are designed with literally one goal, what will keep you scrolling? That's the goal of facebook. But when this meets algorithms designed to maximize the harvesting of attention, this produces a catastrophic effect. Ten week old babies will stare longer at an angry face than a smiling face. And that is destroying our ability to solve problems. In the wake of brexe and trump, facebook internally set up a group called its own data scientists called common ground. The only alternative for facebook was to abandon its business model and adopt an anti-anti-growth