908: Tobias Rose-Stockwell | Dismantling the Outrage Machine

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Jordan Harbinger

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🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Outrage Machine author Tobias Rose-Stockwell explains how social media fuels our negative emotions and disrupts society — and what we can do about it.

What We Discuss with Tobias Rose-Stockwell:

How social media inadvertently created what Tobias Rose-Stockwell calls an "outrage machine" that fuels our negative emotions and disrupts society.
Because it generates more attention (which translates into more money), negative news is more widely shared and discussed than good news, which makes it seem like the world is worse than it actually is.
The more information we produce and share online, the more powerful the algorithms and AI designed to keep us engaged — and outraged — become.
The longer people spend on social media, the more likely they are to be politically extreme — and elements on every inch of the political spectrum manipulate this to their advantage.
The steps we can take to guard against the outrage machine's control over our emotions and distortion of our reality.
And much more...

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0:09.1	are closer to feed animals for algorithms, and that we are plugged into machines that are just
0:14.5	built for extraction, extracting our preferences, and if we were to try to feed these algorithms
0:20.0	more and more effectively. And we're already seeing that right now. We're already beginning to
0:23.4	resemble these strange feed animals that are stuck in these algorithmic channels of extraction.
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1:25.9	Today on the show Tobias Rose Stockwell, who tells us that social media is designed to make us
1:31.4	angry. No big surprise there. It wasn't the original intent, of course, but that's where we are now.
1:35.6	In this episode, we'll discover how we got here and what social media is doing to our ability
1:41.2	to think critically or think for ourselves at all. We'll also explore disinformation,
1:46.1	viral news, clickbait, emotional contagion, and more. With a couple, hopefully worthwhile tangents
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