Eight cognitive biases social media takes advantage of

Yet, the hidden machinations behind everyone’s favorite social media and search platforms are engineered to exploit our primal instincts for validation, status, and mimetic desires (adopting or pursuing preferences and aspirations based on the influence of others rather than our intrinsic motivations), morphing into a manipulative force that feeds ... See more

How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind—from a Former Insider

André Chaperon

Reframing the “Social Media” Problem As an Attention Crisis