Ep. 1 — The Algorithm Knows Your Loneliness (And It's Using It Against You)
Have you ever picked up your phone to check something quickly and looked up to find an hour had passed? You were not weak. You were not careless. You were targeted.
In this episode of The Mind & The Machine, we break down exactly how social media algorithms are engineered to exploit loneliness — and why older adults are disproportionately affected. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is published science.
You will learn what an algorithm actually is in plain language, the 4 psychological traps used to hook older adults, why this is not a character flaw, and 3 things you can do this week to…
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