Do you think the internet and social media could have been just an untrammelled force for good? Or is this was this inevitable trump bolsinaro, riot an menmil strilanka? Was this just inevitable when we would kind of open up the world and flatten kind of the hierarchies? Sir yeu: Social media can be a real force for transformet ofe good. But they're also these huge companies that have to make not just money, but,. by the way, an incredibly huge amount of money. They are constantly competing with themselves, with each other, and with every other form of information and stimulus in the world to capture as much of your time
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How does more time spent online result in more havoc and social unrest in the world? In just two decades, social media and its addictive components have changed society in unfathomable ways; how we communicate with one another, how we receive our news, how our societies function and how our societies break down. In this episode Max Fisher, New York Times columnist and author of The Chaos Machine, explores how we have been rewired by algorithms which claim to know us better than we know ourselves. Host for this discussion is technology journalist Chris Stokel-Walker.
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