156: Jaron Lanier | Why You Should Unplug from Social Media for Good
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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The Role of Social Media in the Rohingya Crisis
In social media, it's easy to inject fake contact through fake people that creates a sense of paranoia and irritability directed at some group. You can put fake people into Facebook to make a population more racist or less likely to vote but you can't do the reverse. And in fact, the people who do temporarily get a positive effect are ultimately feeding the evil here in a way they don't realize. The most dramatic one was the initially effective use of social media platforms for the Arab Spring turning into the devastating use by groups like ISIS.
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