How Social Media Exploits Creators with Taylor Lorenz

Factually! with Adam Conover

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Comedy

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Social media is just media now. It has irreversibly changed how we engage with our world, yet it is often disregarded as frivolous. The dismissal of social media can be dangerous, as it minimizes not just the benefits but the dangers of our current media landscape. This week Adam is joined by Taylor Lorenz, an internet expert and author of "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet," to track the evolution of social media, from the birth of mommy bloggers to the current crisis of social platforms exploiting their audiences for free labor. Find Taylor's book at factuallypod.com/books

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast. I don't know what to think I don't know what to say
0:16.0	and that's all right that's okay
0:21.0	I don't know anything.
0:26.0	Hello and welcome to Factually. I'm Adam Conover.
0:28.0	Thank you so much for joining me on the show again.
0:30.0	You know, I think it's underappreciated just how much social media has transformed our world.
0:35.0	30 years ago, if you wanted to fix your radiator, you'd have to buy a book or even worse, call someone.
0:41.0	Now, you just go on YouTube and watch a shaky iPhone video from some guy named
0:45.0	Rad Robbie Radiator 420. And that's not just true for radiators, but for everything.
0:50.3	Our entertainment and information ecosystems are increasingly dominated by social media,
0:56.4	and that changes how we see major events in the real world.
1:00.6	Take the devastating war that's being waged by Israel right now.
1:03.5	The entire thing is being streamed and shared on social media
1:07.2	and that is how people are taking it in.
1:10.2	And that's a good thing and a bad thing because even though social media allows people to criticize information and media narratives they think are wrong that's a good thing I do that myself all the time
1:20.8	It also allows people to spread false and misleading narratives.
1:25.3	I mean a lot of the videos that are being shared of this conflict are things that happened
1:29.4	years ago but are being passed off as recent events.
1:32.7	The result of this is a certain amount of informational chaos.
1:37.3	And this is not a passing trend.
1:39.5	Social media simply is media now. Companies will spend 270 billion dollars this year to advertise on it
1:46.7	and that means it's an apocal shift in human communication. We've moved from a one to many
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