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Kamala Harris: “The algorithms around social media are designed to make…”

Featuring: Kamala Harris, Democrat | Former Vice President of the United States | National

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VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Published | Video Starts at 22:46

And what can create fear more than you believe you are being attacked. You believe that your very existence is the subject of another's ire, and this has happened. And so your point? I agree with The algorithms around social media are designed to make people feel something. but it's designed to make people feel something. Right, right. Not just think, but feel something. And one of the most primitive, to your point, feelings that we have, that translates into action. (22:46–22:54)

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Asserts that social media algorithms are intentionally designed to evoke emotions.

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