Tristan Harris explains “the false belief that the presidential election had been stolen”

marketing, promotion 1 Minute

Keywords: Tech policy , Facebook , misinformation , politics , Tinder , Twitter , YouTube

The chief author of that claim was President Donald Trump, but the mob’s readiness to believe it was in large part a product of the attention economy that modern technology has created.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/10/1015934/facebook-twitter-youtube-big-tech-attention-economy-reform

See also: https://connect.data.blog/2020/09/16/herding-millennials-a-new-agenda-for-tech

Published by New Media Works

I'm just a regular person ;) If you want to know more, pls send me a msg -- thanks! :D

Published

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s