Social Media Is Junk Food for Information Foragers • Social media exploits our evolved need for information, feeding us fluff and outright misinformation. A new science of human collective behavio...

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The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/Naurgul on 2024-07-30 14:39:00+00:00.

Original Title: Social Media Is Junk Food for Information Foragers • Social media exploits our evolved need for information, feeding us fluff and outright misinformation. A new science of human collective behavior can help us retake control