Social Media Platforms Are Helping to Create It

Tristan Harris says social media platforms are generating billions by making us angry. He cites a new study of Twitter showing that attacking political opponents is almost guaranteed to draw attention each individual term referring to your political outgroup increase the odds of that post being retweeted or reshared by 67 percent. The more moral outrageous language you use the more inflammatory language contemptuous language will get shared. We are being rewarded for being division entrepreneurs the better you are at innovating a new way to be divisive we will pay you in likes followers and retweets in his 2020 documentary the social dilemma.

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