Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have transformed how we come to a shared understanding about our world. Tobias has been writing about social media for half a decade. He joins Mark and Adam to discuss velocity and virality in information dissemination; how to train your YouTube algorithm; rage tweeting; and how to improve the internet we all inhabit.

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Show notes

• Tobias Rose-Stockwell and his writing
• MUD
• TinTin++
• techno-optimism
• clickbait
• This Is How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit
• The Social Dilemma
• The Dark Psychology of Social Networks
• Jonathan Haidt
• How to Stop Misinformation Before It Gets Shared
• Renée DiResta
• moral psychology
• algorithmic feeds
• System 1 and System 2 thinking
• dopamine hit
• dunk quote-tweeting
• The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority
• How to Disagree
• moral grandstanding
• episode on The Information Age
• the intellectual dark web
• “The internet is the Freak Liberation Front.”
• the food pyramid
• yellow journalism
• Central Park zoo escape (1874)
• Great Moon Hoax (1835)
• Prisoner’s Dilemma
• Substack
• Plandemic
• Free Speech Is Not the Same As Free Reach