Tristan Harris: “Social Media: Bringing the Ring to Mordor”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Is There a Fault Line in Our Society?
Bad actors and foreign a adversaries have been and will continue to amplify the narratives that they want. If you actually look at the behaviour of the russian botz, they're not pushing for one side. They're just pushing for what makes both sides angry. And so it's like turning up the contrast in a photograph wor all lines suddenly get really visible. That's what social media is doing to our society. It's incompatible with democracy. These companies have goten too big. It's too much concentrated power. So i take a stronger view that when we talk about solutions to this problem, which io probably want to get into, that ou should focus on legible ones such as
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