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The problem with social media is not content but its distortion of reality"

The problem with social media is not content but its distortion of reality
by Aleksandr Gladkiy, BIG Think
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
By Jonathan Haidt
DIRECT LINK TO T"HE ATLANTIC"
Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
By Jonathan Haidt, The Atlantic
LINK TO ARTICLE IN NEWSBANK DATABASE (Access World News)
Will America’s disregard for science be the end of its reign? | Big Think
VIDEO on YouTube
How Filter Bubbles Distort Reality
Mental Models
Center for Countering Digital Hate
Stop the spread of hate and lies online
Social Media & the Information Landscape: Episode 8 of the Essential Sam Harris
PODCAST: An examination a series of Sam’s conversations centered around social media’s impact on the information landscape. May , 2023
The Digital Multiverse. Sam Harris Making Sense
PODCAST: Sam Harris speaks with David Auerbach about the problematic structure of online networks. They discuss the tradeoffs between liberty and cooperation, the impossibility of fighting misinformation, bottom-up vs top-down influences, recent developments in AI, deepfakes, the instability of skepticism, the future of social media, the weaknesses of LLMs, breaking up digital bubbles, online identity and privacy, and other topics. May, 2023