Tristan Harris - Facebook's Danger to Society

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4.4 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Tristan Harris, cofounder and president of the Center for Humane Technology, discusses a whistleblower's revelations about the inherent toxicity of Facebook's business model.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:02.6	BAM!
0:03.6	Welcome back to the Daily Show.
0:06.6	My guest tonight is Tristan Harris of the Center for Humane Technology.
0:11.3	He's here to talk about Facebook and whether the social media giant can be both responsible
0:17.2	and profitable.
0:18.2	Tristan, welcome to the show.
0:19.2	Pleasure to be here with you.
0:21.7	Your face is one that I both enjoy seeing but at the same time it brings me a lot of
0:26.2	sort of PTSD.
0:28.0	Because you set a lot of things in the documentary where I think a lot of people would probably
0:32.3	know you from the social dilemma.
0:34.8	Where you just laid out how social media is fundamentally designed to turn my brain into
0:40.2	a certain type of mush and then just leave me feeling shitty about myself but constantly
0:45.4	needing to reengage with the product.
0:48.8	Yesterday everything was down or most of it was down.
0:51.2	Facebook was down, Instagram was down, WhatsApp etc.
0:53.5	Were you popping champagne when that was happening?
0:55.1	Was somebody who has been really hitting on the idea that everything should be rained
0:59.9	in?
1:00.9	Well, I think it certainly gave people a taste of what it's like to just not have this
1:05.9	thing in our lives.
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