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🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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The weekly American news show '60 Minutes' invited Center for Humane Technology co-founder Tristan Harris back recently to discuss political polarization and the anger and incivility that gets elevated on social media as a matter of corporate profit. We're releasing a special episode of Your Undivided Attention this week to dig further into some of the important nuances of the complexity of this problem.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, it's Tristan.
0:02.2	So the weekly American news show, 60 minutes,
0:05.2	asked me if they could interview me for a segment
0:07.4	with anchor Bill Whittaker on our work
0:09.3	at the Center for Humane Technology.
0:11.1	And about my thoughts on political polarization,
0:13.4	social media, and specifically the anger and instability
0:17.3	that gets elevated on these platforms
0:19.2	as a matter of corporate profit.
0:24.0	And it aired this past Sunday, November 6th,
0:26.1	just ahead of the American midterm elections.
0:29.2	And I saw it as a good opportunity to put some visibility
0:32.0	into the larger questions that we've been exploring on this show.
0:34.8	So we're releasing a special episode of this podcast this week
0:37.8	to get further into some of the important nuances
0:40.1	of the complexity of this problem.
0:41.9	And if you're new to the podcast, then thank you for joining us
0:44.4	and welcome.
0:48.2	This interview with 60 Minutes was personally significant for me
0:51.2	because our work was introduced to the world
0:53.9	in 2017 when I did a 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper.
0:58.0	And back then, we actually introduced so many of the concepts
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