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156: Jaron Lanier | Why You Should Unplug from Social Media for Good
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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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