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🗓️ 15 July 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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With the dawn of the newsfeed, Facebook begins a mass experiment on the human psyche — what we like and hate, what makes us happy and angry. Over the course of a decade, its algorithm drives the world to like, comment, and eventually, kill.
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0:37.8 | This episode contains some harsh language, descriptions of violence, and a reference to sexual assault. |
0:44.3 | Please listen carefully. |
0:46.4 | Every fight I've picked online has been because of my kids. |
0:52.1 | It's my kid. |
0:53.8 | That was the motivating factor. |
0:58.3 | Back in 2013, Renee Doresta was living in California. She was pregnant with her first child, |
1:04.8 | and like a lot of expecting moms, she was spending a lot of time online getting ready. |
1:10.5 | So the minute you find out you're pregnant, |
1:12.8 | most women will go and will join what's called a birth month group. |
1:16.5 | Join this group and everybody's due at the same time nine months out. |
1:19.6 | And you go through the entire experience of pregnancy with these people, |
1:22.9 | most of whom are anonymous. |
1:25.0 | And inevitably, the conversation turns to vaccines. |
1:30.3 | I do not see that there is ever an acceptable time to inject a known toxin, a known poison, |
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