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

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

When two completely unrelated human beings want to to know each other, they tend to put each other in socio-cultural compartments, and make assumptions about the other one, based on their prior knowledge about those compartments

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Stereotypes in marketing is used to position a product in the target customer’s psyche. All the target consumers of a product fall under some common categories, hailing from similar culture, language, gender, ethnicity etc. Stereotypes contextualize advertisements, thereby orienting the audiences to the story of the advertisement.

https://prattusamallikofficial.wordpress.com/2020/09/13/use-of-stereotypes-in-marketing