attention economy
Conspiracy theories tagged "attention economy."
2 articles
Confirmed
Social Media Deliberately Engineered for Addiction
Former Facebook president Sean Parker and others have confirmed that social media platforms were deliberately engineered to exploit psychological vulnerabilities and maximize addictive use.
2009 · United States · Sean Parker (Facebook), B.J. Fogg (behavioral design), Tristan Harris
Unresolved
Silicon Valley Predictive Programming / Social Engineering
Claims that Big Tech uses data harvesting and algorithmic prediction to manipulate public behavior at scale. From Facebook experiments to Cambridge Analytica, the evidence examined.
2010 · United States · Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel