Claire Stapleton > Quotes

“YouTube was sold as a democratizing force—a place where anyone could speak, create, belong. For a time, maybe, that promise felt real. But the algorithm doesn’t ask what’s true, or healthy for a functioning society, or good for our souls. It only asks what will keep you watching. And more often than not, that’s grievance, spectacle, humiliation, division, rage.”
― Claire Stapleton, Don't Be Evil: Bad Bosses Fake Promises and My Escape from Big Tech – A Biting Memoir of Twelve Years Inside Google