We’re drowning in debates about banning violence-inciting speech and its authors from social media platforms, but what if that’s only half the story? While we’re busy focusing on the production side—all that the QAnoners, meme-dispensers, and internet conspiracists are doing on the various platforms that host them—we’re not paying enough attention to the consumption side: How the human brain receives and processes information, and how the designs of the platforms maximize profit by taking advantage of how our brains work.
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