Industry ethicist: Social media companies amplifying Americans' anger for profit

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"Each individual term referring to your political out-group increased the odds of that post being retweeted or reshared by 67%," Harris told Whitaker."These platforms," Whitaker asked, "are they not just reflecting who we are and what we think and the divisions that are already there?"The day the Department of Justice released a photo showing classified documents in former President Donald Trump's Florida home, a tweet highlighting a straight news story on the subject received about 2,000 "likes.""I think the deepest, like, perverse thing about these platforms is that they have captured the meaning of social participation in society," Harris told Whitaker.And national security concerns have triggered new calls this past week for TikTok to be banned in the U.S.Twitter pointed out that it asks users to think twice before they share potentially harmful posts."

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