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Gavin Newsom: “In some places that lead you to, you know, comfortable…”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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Economic Nihilism, Online Communities & Gamer Culture w/ Brandon "Atrioc" Ewing

Published | Video Starts at 47:45

Then you get that confirmation bias, the algorithms reinforcing that your world view is colored in. It's amplified, it becomes bigger and you become more convinced or ideological. Yeah. In that space at the same time. And In some places that lead you to, you know, comfortable place, other places can leave you a Radicalized place. Yeah. Which could manifest offline in pretty, you know, pretty significant ways. Right. Yeah. What I'll say is people have gotten radicalized in human history without these platforms. Yeah. (47:45–47:53)

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