Dangers of Social Media | Jaron Lanier on TJHS Ep. 156 (FULL)

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On the surface, social media exists to keep human beings connected. But at its core, its business model relies on surveilling, analyzing, and manipulating your behavior in order to more effectively sell you things. It also deprives you of your economic dignity, hampers the democratic process, and even undermines your experience of humanity.

In this episode Jaron Lanier, author of Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, the man who coined the term "virtual reality," and one of the architects of the early and not-so-early Internet, dissects how social media companies curate and essentially control what we see, think, and feel.

What We Discuss with Jaron Lanier:

💡 The real cost of the “everything is free” mentality that accompanied the cultural proliferation of the Internet and social media.
💡 How social media manipulates human behavior to threaten free will.
💡 Why negative emotions are the lifeblood of social media.
💡 How social media contributes to the mass production of misinformation.
💡 Why feeding on social media content tailored to you makes it difficult to empathize with the perspective of others.
💡And much more…

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