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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Click-hate: How the online rage machine took over society
Description: Social media fuels many emotions, especially anger. And if you’ve followed UK politics for any length of time, you’ll be used to that feeling. Author of Outrage Machine, Tobias Rose-Stockwell, says tech companies know this and have tailored their algorithms to maximise the amount we consume. But how does this translate to real life? Does it alter the way we vote? And does it damage democracy? He joins Hannah Fearn in The Bunker. Book: https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/tobias-rose-stockwell/outrage-machine/9780349427386/Â
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