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Why Social Media Makes You Assume The Worst (And Who Profits From It)
A viral clip. A flood of hot takes. And some stories that didn't match the bodycam. So who got paid?
Police are called to a youth soccer game, the clip goes viral, and before the bodycam footage is released, some creators have already told you who to be mad at. In this episode, Leron Gaskins uses that story as a case study. He isn't here to say who was right or wrong. He's here to look at what scrolling does to the way we think.
In this episode:
- Why the feed moves faster than you can fact-check
- What a viral clip shows, what it leaves out, and how the story spread
- Negativity bias, and…
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