Notes on the Social Dilemma

 What is the problem?

Link between mental health and social media use.

Social media use + fake news

Tristian Harris "Race to be human"

2 billion people will have thoughts they never knew they would have due to 50 people designing gmail.

Jaron Lanier, 10 reasons to put down your social media

"if you are not paying for the product, you are the product."

A market that exclusively trades human futures

Arthur C Clarke

The center of society is manipulation

massive-scale contagion experiments

Woman getting their drivers license dropping

Social media intentionally leads us to be more close-minded

When was Pizzagate?

False information makes the companies more money, the truth is boring.

Myanmar

"We are allowing these companies to frame these issues as if they are equipped to solve them."

"U.S. senate hearing on persuasive technology" c-span2

"How do you wake up from the matrix, when you dont know you are in the matrix"

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