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Podcast: The Jordan Harbinger Show
Episode: 908: Tobias Rose-Stockwell | Dismantling the Outrage Machine
Description: Outrage Machine author Tobias Rose-Stockwell explains how social media fuels our negative emotions and disrupts society — and what we can do about it.
What We Discuss with Tobias Rose-Stockwell:
How social media inadvertently created what Tobias Rose-Stockwell calls an "outrage machine" that fuels our negative emotions and disrupts society.
Because it generates more attention (which translates into more money), negative news is more widely shared and discussed than good news, which makes it seem like the world is worse than it actually is.
The more information we produce and share online, the more powerful the algorithms an...