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#1108 Ryan Holiday On How To Get Rich Writing Books

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How Do You Think About Social Media Manipulation?

In some way, I almost feel like maybe the algorithm is the publisher or the kind of content gate. And if you're able to put the right content in front, you see authors becoming very popular. My wife has been telling me about a woman, Colleen Hoover, who's got like six of the top 10 books in the world. She like became viral on TikTok and now she has all these books. Yeah. It is a form of media manipulation. You've dissected the manipulation of the media previously. But in some way, what you're talking about here is using social media to manipulate the audience in terms of interest.

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