Enragement Equals Engagement

Enragement Equals Engagement

July 15, 2025 · 37 min · Season 4 · Episode 4

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The episode explores how Facebook's algorithm influences human emotions and behaviors over a decade.

With the dawn of the newsfeed, Facebook begins a mass experiment on the human psyche — what we like and hate, what makes us happy and angry. Over the course of a decade, its algorithm drives the world to like, comment, and eventually, kill.

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