Tristan Harris on Secrets of Social Media Algorithms, Tech Manipulation and Addiction, and How Our Feeds Divide Us | Ep. 244

The Megyn Kelly Show

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Society & Culture, News Commentary, News

4.4 • 38.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by Tristan Harris, president and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology and co-host of the "Your Undivided Attention" podcast, to talk about, the secrets of social media algorithms, how technology is designed to make us addicted, how technology and our feeds divides our society and furthers stereotypes, cultural reliance on phones, the dangers of tech for our kids, solutions to the problem of technology, attention manipulation, how tech is a danger to our democracy, the "amplifiganda" of China, how our adversaries and tech companies are trying to harm us through technology and social media, the dangerous future of the metaverse, and more. Plus, Charles C.W. Cooke breaks down President Biden's disastrous press conference and first year in office.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly show your home for open, honest and provocative conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone on Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly show.
0:15.7	In just a few minutes we're going to be taking a deep dive into the dangers of big tech
0:20.2	with Tristan Harris.
0:21.2	Do you remember this guy?
0:23.2	He was in the great, great film, The Social Dilemma and he is going to be speaking to us
0:29.2	about what it's like on the inside at Google and elsewhere and how we are intentionally
0:33.3	being manipulated even worse now than when they made that movie a few years ago.
0:38.7	But we begin today with President Biden, the 46th president of the United States giving
0:43.2	just his second formal news conference in a year, taking questions for just under two
0:49.3	hours yesterday.
0:51.2	Today already his administration is now trying to do some major cleanup after in that press
0:56.6	conference. He not only almost started a ground war in your hub by seeming to green light
1:02.8	a Russian incursion minor incursion in Ukraine.
1:08.8	But went on from there suggesting that the 2022 midterms would probably be illegitimate
1:14.8	unless his entire voting rights bill were passed.
1:18.6	Charles CW Cook is a senior writer for national review.
1:21.6	He has a new piece out today entitled Biden's Year of Failure.
1:26.6	Charles great to have you here.
1:27.8	So he claimed last night that he did not over promise about what he could do as president
1:32.8	that he actually outperformed what was expected of him in his first year as president saying
1:37.6	quote no one has ever accomplished more in their first term.
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