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Think with Pinker

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Social Media and the Dark Side

Technology enables these theories to spread faster than they ever have before. Social media is designed to monotize attention, capture as much attention as you can and then sell that to advertisers. So we have a deep flaw in the way these media companies were structured and in their business model. We seit it ler its an environmental problem. If you're a sewer where people get false information and feel harassed and bullied, it becomes a toxic environment. They now understand they have a business interest in fixing this. Tha challenge is how bertrand russell wrote it, is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it is true. For most of human

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