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Spencer Cox: “The algorithms, especially, steal our agency and addict us…”

Featuring: Spencer Cox, Republican | Governor of Utah

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Spencer Cox Wants to Pull Our Politics Back From the Brink | The Ezra Klein Show

Published | Video Starts at 13:23

… and now and the way we get our information and consume our information and share our innermost thoughts and feelings with each other in such rapid succession. And the way The algorithms, especially, steal our agency and addict us to them and show us the worst of humanity. to get us that dopamine hit from outrage. That is very different. When John F. Kennedy is assassinated, you have to go turn on a television and some breaking news and other political assassinations were not caught on tape. (13:23–13:35)

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Asserts that algorithms manipulate users and promote negative content.

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