How surveillance turns you into a puppet of the internet

Platforms have one overriding goal: to keep us online as long as possible. And they’ve learned that nothing hooks us like outrage. But here's something many people don't realize: privacy and surveillance have everything to do with it. In this video I want to explore how surveillance is the key to polarization and how, ultimately, it's the engine that makes platform-driven polarization work.

00:00 We’re More Polarized Than Ever
00:27 Outrage
02:08 Manipulation
08:47 Targeting vs Filter Bubbles
10:05 What We Should Do

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