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
Recently, on another blog, I described what has happened in the 2020 Presidential Election in the United States over the past several months.
Now (apparently, just the other day) a smoking gun (or rather: several smoking guns) has (have) been discovered.
I got wind of this via Adam Curry’s excellent analysis on the NoAgenda podcast (episode 1294 [ca. 2:40:00 – 3:05:00] ).
Rather than trying to summarize what seems to be a rather complicated affair, I strongly recommend you to listen to the relevant part of episode 1294 of the No Agenda podcast and thereby get the story directly from Adam’s mouth.
Keywords: politics , technology , democracy , economy , extractive attention economy , extractive economy , market , psychology , self sovereign identity , social media , technology , tristan harris
Tristan Harris, former Google design ethicist and co-founder of the Centre for Humane Technology, argued that technology usurps human weaknesses rather than toppling human strength by competing to race for our attention. While online communities are catching wind with audiences from corners of the world, software developers install persuasive tactics that tug at the fragile susceptible human psyche to stay longer online.
https://clipsse.home.blog/2020/10/30/the-dog-eat-dogs-of-extractive-attention-economy
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The founders couldn’t have conceived of a threat as big as tech platforms
“Unity Campfire 8 Bret Weinstein with Melissa Chen and Matt Taibbi 090220” [1:10:45 – 1:13:50]
cf. https://contextual.news.blog/2020/04/22/introduction-to-rational-media-content-vs-container
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