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Tech Pioneer Jaron Lanier on the Diminishing Returns of Social Media

Jaron Lanier, an interdisciplinary scientist at Microsoft, talks about his latest book Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. Lanier offers powerful reasons for all of us to leave social media platforms. He argues that they bring out the worst in us, make politics terrifying, trick us with illusions of popularity and success, twist our relationship with the truth and rob us of our free will with relentless targeted ads.
This segment is guest hosted by DW Gibson.