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Book cover for The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
The tools they had created to accomplish this were “ripping apart the social fabric,” Palihapitiya said. “The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created are destroying how society works,” creating a world with “no civil ...more
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