how social media changes your brain

In this episode of The Rich Roll Podcast, NYT investigative reporter & ‘The Chaos Machine’ author Max Fisher discuss how social media is eroding our minds, driving polarization, and radically changing the way we think. To read more and peruse the full show notes, go here👉🏾http://bit.ly/richroll703
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00:00:00 – Intro
00:01:43 – How did Max get pulled into writing “The Chaos Machine”
00:05:09 – Polarization
00:08:15 – Jacob’ the whistleblower / Impossible task of moderating FB
00:11:27 – The Problem
00:17:31 – What drives social media? Financial Model / Venture Capital
00:21:26 – The philosophy of Silicon Valley
00:26:18 – The Persuasion Lab / Chasing the Dragon
00:32:26 – How does social media rewire our behavior?
00:38:11 – Wall Street
00:38:50 – Tay – Microsoft AI run Twitter account gets radicalized
00:40:46 – How algorithms can radicalize us / GamerGate
00:47:11 – The evolution of radicalization since GamerGate
00:49:51 – What are the underlying social ills behind all this?
00:53:09 – Changing your media diet habits
00:55:44 – Dealing with misinformation
00:59:24 – Ad break – The Plantpower Meal Planner
01:01:05 – Super Posters / outrage sets Social Media norms
01:07:07 – How Anti-Vaxxers grew out of mom FB groups
01:09:05 – Anti-immigration story in Germany
01:12:22 – Qanon
01:16:34 – Most shocking thing Max learned writing the book
01:18:30 – Turn off the incentives on social media
01:25:52 – What are the parameters of free speech on social media?
01:33:09 – Social regulation
01:41:25 – Cecil the lion
01:44:57 – How to dial back the outrage? Gov’t regulation?
01:51:09 – How FB meddles with other countries / Myanmar
01:53:41 – Amazon Fresh / Surveillance
01:55:26 – Breaking up Big Tech
01:58:40 – Where is it all going?
02:06:12 – YouTube’s destructive influence
02:11:06 – Advice for navigating social media
02:18:26 – Closing remarks

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How Social Media Keeps You Anxious – Stop Watching News

I’ve been meaning to cover this topic for a long time now. A lot of research went into making this. From watching magical cat videos, keeping in touch with families and friends, easy online sign ups, promoting our businesses to consuming news, social media has already become an invincible member in our changing society, so much so that it has the power to change governments to alter our perspectives and the way we think, act and feel.

Sharing news in social media has become a phenomenon of increasing social, political and economic importance. Anyone of us can produce content, report incidents and create click worthy news stories.

Many a times, I feel like consuming news is not even a choice. It is being force fed to us globally, and with the rise of social media, it is proving to be incredibly hard to not fall into the vicious trap of click-baiting and fake news.

Be vigilant, be mindful and be aware!

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Research Sources:

How media covers violence:
http://www.badgerinstitute.org/WIInterest/McB14.1.pdf

Pew Research Survey about crime in the US:

5 facts about crime in the U.S.

Understanding how the media reports crime:

Understanding how the media reports crime

We Are Social – Digital 2020 Study:
https://wearesocial.com/blog/2020/01/digital-2020-3-8-billion-people-use-social-media

News sharing in social media – Paper:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074756321100210X

Agenda setting in a digital age – Georgetown University:
https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/559283/Bode_Leticia_Agenda_Setting.pdf?sequence=5

How Social Media changed how we consume news – Forbes
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicolemartin1/2018/11/30/how-social-media-has-changed-how-we-consume-news/#560ff7f73c3c

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