The tech layoffs continue, and the companies are trying to present them as performance-based. There's just one problem: they're not actually performance-based.

I wrote a piece summarizing some of the data on this and telling my story from back in 2022.
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Affective polarization has been increasing for decades. Here's my latest piece on how we are moving from political animosity and insults to political violence towards all, not just public officials mattmotyl.substack.com/p/how-polari...

Nearly 90% of those polled (in a sample from 16 countries) stated that they wanted governments and regulators to address hate speech and disinformation on social media platforms. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Billy Brady: Content algorithms optimize engagement by exploiting learning biases (favoring prestigious, ingroup, moralized, and emotional content)

74% of the most viral misinformation on the Israel-Hamas war on X (Twitter) were shared by verified blue checkmark accounts.

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