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James Talarico: “The biggest competitor to these platforms, to meta, is…”

Featuring: James Talarico, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 50

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Published | Video Starts at 38:55

It is a perversion or instrumentalization to profit off of what was a very intimate impulse, to say nothing of. To profit off of my attention, which is my most intimate faculty. The biggest competitor to these platforms, to meta, is actually not TikTok. It's real human relationship. relationship. And that should be terrifying. We have a whole economy now built on keeping us in our rooms, on our phones for as many hours in the day as possible. (38:55–39:09)

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