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Chris Bail - Online Extremism, Trolls, & the Myth of the Echo Chamber

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

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Why Do People Use Social Media?

Social media, for me, is all about status. It's about heightening the things we do that make us human. We have a much broader range of identities that we can present to people. Technology has built into most platforms technology to monitor what other people are thinking of me with unprecedented speed. A lot of social medio posts get ignored. But we have this way of getting real time feedback about what huge numbers of people think of us.

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