“The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created including the hearts, likes, and thumbs up of various social media channels are destroying how society works. There’s no civil discourse, no cooperation; only misinformation, mistruth. And it’s not an American problem–this is not about Russians ads. This is a global problem.”
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