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Andy Stumpf interviews Chase Hughes about the manipulation of human behavior and the psychological frameworks behind it.

On this week's episode of Change Agents, Andy travels to Chase Hughes' new studio to break down how human behavior is manipulated at scale, from bot farms manufacturing fake consensus to the psychological framework Chase calls WOUND that explains why outrage, fear, and loneliness keep us glued to our phones. They dig into why Chase believes the algorithm is less a sinister mastermind and more an engine optimized purely for ad revenue, how think tanks may shape policy more than most people realize, and why Walter Cronkite and Julia Child both have far stranger backstories than anyone learned in school. Andy also gets a tour of Chase's new independent news studio, Station One, built to show audiences the psyops behind the headlines rather than just the headlines themselves. Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original Chapters: (00:00:00) How the Media Actually Works (00:05:59) Why Chase Built Station One and How It Works (00:08:20) Unrestricted Warfare and the Chinese Playbook for Dividing America (00:13:34) The WOUND Framework: How Social Media Gets Weaponized (00:17:20) Do They Start With the Outcome or the Emotion (00:19:28) The Deep State and Think Tanks (00:23:26) Station One's…

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