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CrowCAH
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Saw this on #Facebook of someone in Australia!
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This is so cool to give a BOOK as the Happy Meal toy!

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LeahBergen You can choose a little book or a toy for Happy Meals here in Canada. It‘s so cute. 1w
CrowCAH @LeahBergen I‘m a bit jealous. I don‘t think the States have that choice. But then again I don‘t eat at McDonald‘s often, so I wouldn‘t know. 1w
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5feet.of.fury
Mehso-so

This probably isn‘t a fair rating, it is well written and researched, but I started skimming because I knew most of the information & reliving it made me want to delete all my social media accounts and throw my smartphone into the sea.

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Booksbymybed
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This was a fascinating read. Lots of research, insight into famous cases and less loud ones. I thought I was pretty well informed, but there is so much underneath it all. “Algorithm has no moral compass”.
But ultimately it‘s a story of tremendous greed. And we are living it. This is a must read

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Sharpeipup
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Can I count this as horror because the content is pretty scary? 😱

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RebL
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Did every page, paragraph, sentence or word make me angry? Yes. Pretty much rage read this one.

I waited a long time for my library hold to come in. As soon as I finished, I bought multiple copies to distribute. Libraries definitely generate book sales.

Tamra I‘m almost afraid to know…..🫣 9mo
RebL @Tamra Big picture—every chance to make it right, modern day robber barons chose profit instead. Everything old is new again. 9mo
Tamra @RebL ugh - the capitalist way 9mo
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Purpleness
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Pickpick

Basically, because social media puts engagement above all else the algorithms running the sites aggressively promote posts that have high engagement. Moral outrage against people you already disagree with is really engaging, leading to more extreme posts being pushed. This makes more extremist views seem normal and consensus that agrees with those views seem stronger than it is in society as a whole. A toxic mix, as shown in multiple examples.

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Purpleness
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TheBookgeekFrau That's a potent first line 😯 11mo
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Purpleness
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“The germs are ours, but Facebook is the wind”

Vansa This actually isn't really true.Firstly, barely 30% of Sri Lanka's population is on Facebook.Thats not even half the population,in developing countries,internet access is only for the elite.More importantly,this way of thinking absolves people of responsibility for racism,and shifts the blame onto technology,which behaves the way we want it to.Facebook did not tell Sri Lankans to commit genocide on Tamils.It was an active choice by humans 11mo
Purpleness @Vansa The book certainly has a narrow focus on the damage rather than the good of social media, but it isn‘t denying that people make choices; for example, the quote above is pointing out that the extremes social media amplifies already existed. But, that being said, we shouldn‘t ignore the influences that exploit our brain‘s instincts and encourage extremism for the sake of “engagement,” the main benchmark of success in the social media field. 11mo
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Purpleness
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An apt description, sadly. This a depressing but important book so far.

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Purpleness
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What great name for a researcher whose work was instrumental in the history of electronics! 😜

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