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Your Attention Didn't Collapse. It Was Stolen.

Honestly with Bari Weiss

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How Do We Take as Much of Your Attention as We Can?

Every time you open a facebook, they make or any social media ap they make money in two ways. The first is really obvious. You see ads. We all know how that works. But the second way is much more important and much more valuable - everything you say on social media,. its being scanned and sorted by their algorithms to build a profile of you. They art gathering tens of thousands of data points like this in order to sell you your attention to the highest bidder. That business model means that the technology we use is maximamly designed to invade attention. It's just a very simple truth. In the same way k f c wants you to eat fried chicken, which has given

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