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

It comes to no surprise that online targeted advertisements would unleash torrents of hateful and misleading content, now completely mired by Section 230 and a fenced-off playing field structured around surveillance capitalism

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

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