Is There Proof That Social Media Is Leading to Incivility?

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Daniels: Is there proof that social media is leading to incivility and anger? We may think it, but daniel, is there proof of this? Well, tristan can give the proof. But for anyone who's been kind of paying attention, the business model of maximizing people's time on sight was bound to a,. be antithetical to democracy and antithetical to health. And when you basicallylight devisiveness and disagreement and incivility, which is the thing, frank, that you're tryng to find, me ondting you and i regest at the milkin conference. How do we just rein in the reins if we just move

On September 13th, the Wall Street Journal released The Facebook Files, an ongoing investigation of the extent to which Facebook's problems are meticulously known inside the company — all the way up to Mark Zuckerberg. Pollster Frank Luntz invited Tristan Harris along with friend and mentor Daniel Schmachtenberger to discuss the implications in a live webinar.

In this bonus episode of Your Undivided Attention, Tristan and Daniel amplify the scope of the public conversation about The Facebook Files beyond the platform, and into its business model, our regulatory structure, and human nature itself.