I agree with you. Facebook financial started as a company that monetized your attention and used it to direct your purchasing behavior which made Facebook really rich, but now the social media companies and the rest of the big data companies are using your attention to drive your voting and political behavior. These platforms are also allowing people to create tribal identities at scale and with grave political and physical consequences. I see QAnon as a tribe. They have a religion with their own mythology and it is directing real behavior and some of it is violent.
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