The primary issue for me is not manipulation, although it's a big issue. It's surveillance. If fas book's business model is predicated on conflict plus knowing everything and trying to steer commerce, how do you counteract that? I mean, this is really the topic of shashana zubov's book, surveillance capitalism. There's actually no way to exit that except by getting acquired by one of the existing big surveillance capitalism companies. You'd have to do it in some way where it's an independent thing, a something more like a wecopedia or a block chain type project,. But you're not goinge able to transition these existing platforms. Daniel don jumn,
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.