The Dark Side of Social Media

Society has been gradually darkened by this scheme in which everyone is under surveillance all the time and everyone is under this mild version of behavior modification all the time./nIt's made people jittery and cranky. It's made teens especially depressed, which can be quite severe./nBut it's made our politics kind of unreal. And./nHe, along with former Google engineer Tristan Harris, have focused a lot of their concern around social media on the algorithms and the profit motives of Big Tech. There's./nA tendency to think here that this is just human nature. That's just people are polarized and this is just playing out. It's a mirror. It's holding up a mirror to society. But what it's really doing is it's an amplifier for the worst parts of us.