Emotions as Objects of Trade and Weapons on Social Media

October 25, 2021

 

I highly recommend Social Dilemma (available on Netflix) as a great illustration of how our attention, focus and motivation can be used as objects of trade and weapons of emotional destruction. On social media, we are of...



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