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156: Jaron Lanier | Why You Should Unplug from Social Media for Good

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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The Effect of Social Media on Misinformation

I think people don't realize that with thing, clickbait, whatever, I ignore it. It's not that anymore. Now you're getting opinions from people that don't exist. You can make a million fake people on Facebook pretty cheaply. They cobble together bits of real information from various real people and just we combine them to make fake people. And then they create fake social perception so that what you see seems to reflect other people around you being interested in something which on a very deep level speaks to your world. The people around me are responding to but they're fake. This is happening all over the world. We can't say that the system is good for people who are

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