00:03When you go to Google and type in climate change is, you're going to see different
00:07results depending on where you live and the particular things that Google knows about your
00:11interests. That's not by accident. That's a design technique. What I want people to know
00:17is that everything they're doing online is being watched, is being tracked. Every single action
00:23you take is carefully monitored and recorded. A lot of people think Google's just a search
00:29box and Facebook's just a place to see what my friends are doing. What they don't realize
00:33is there's entire teams of engineers whose job is to use your psychology against you.
00:40I was the co-inventor of the Facebook like button. I was the president of Pinterest.
00:44Google. Twitter. Instagram. There were meaningful changes happening around the world because of
00:51these platforms. I think we were naive about the flip side of that coin. We get rewarded by parts,
00:57likes, thumbs up, and we conflate that with value and we conflate it with truth. A whole
01:02generation is more anxious, more depressed. I always felt like fundamentally it was a force
01:08for good. I don't know if I feel that way anymore. Facebook discovered that they were able to affect
01:15real world behavior and emotions without ever triggering the user's awareness. They are completely clueless.
01:27Fake news spread six times faster than true news. We're being bombarded with rumors.
01:34If everyone's entitled to their own facts, there's really no need for people to come together. In fact,
01:39there's really no need for people to interact. We have less control over who we are and what we
01:43really believe. If you want to control the population of your country, there has never been a tool as
01:51effective as Facebook. We built these things and we have a responsibility to change it. The intention
01:57could be, how do we make the world better? If technology creates mass chaos, loneliness, more
02:04polarization, more election hacking, more inability to focus on the real issues, we're toast.
02:10This is Checkmate on Humanity.
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