Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have transformed how we come to a shared understanding about our world. Tobias has been writing about social media for half a decade. He joins Mark and Adam to discuss velocity and virality in information dissemination; how to train your YouTube algorithm; rage tweeting; and how to improve the internet we all inhabit.

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Show notes

Tobias Rose-Stockwell and his writing
MUD
TinTin++
techno-optimism
clickbait
This Is How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold for Profit
The Social Dilemma
The Dark Psychology of Social Networks
Jonathan Haidt
How to Stop Misinformation Before It Gets Shared
Renée DiResta
moral psychology
algorithmic feeds
System 1 and System 2 thinking
dopamine hit
dunk quote-tweeting
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority
How to Disagree
moral grandstanding
episode on The Information Age
the intellectual dark web
“The internet is the Freak Liberation Front.”
the food pyramid
yellow journalism
Central Park zoo escape (1874)
Great Moon Hoax (1835)
Prisoner’s Dilemma
Substack
Plandemic
Free Speech Is Not the Same As Free Reach

31 // Social media with Tobias Rose-Stockwell

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