We could have listened to the evidence that purely practicing individual restraint—in an unchanged environment—rarely works

What tech, designed for what purposes, in whose interests?

After investing all this time in creating their paintings, when they were finished, the artists didn’t triumphantly gaze at what they had made and show it off and seek out praise for it. Almost all of them simply put the painting away and started working on another one.

There’s another obvious way that these companies could survive, which is for them to be bought by the government and taken into public ownership.

site battles alone don’t deliver victory—what they do is establish the crisis clearly in the public’s mind,

I put you in charge of the world, and you wanted to ruin people’s ability to pay attention, what would you do?

If we are lost in lies, and constantly riled up to be angry with our fellow citizens, this sets off a chain reaction. It means we can’t understand what is really going

In 2015 a researcher named Motahhare Eslami, as part of a team at the University of Illinois, took a group of ordinary Facebook users and explained to them how the Facebook algorithm works. She talked them through how it selects what they see. She discovered that 62 percent of them didn’t know their feeds were filtered at all, and they were astonis

there really are these invisible rules that govern what people do.