#BetterHumans
Research and content related to upgrading the human emotional operating system.
Collection by Chris Messina
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The Atlantic
Why American Teens Are So Sad
9 min read · Apr 11th · Four forces are propelling the rising rates of depression among young people. · Shared by 353, including Martin Varsavsky 🇺🇦, American Psychological Association, Jeff Richards, Chris Messina, Merkstatt, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Lee Keyes, Scott Galloway, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, elpocas, Howard Getson, Tarik ESSAADI, Hrag
klobuchar.senate.gov
Klobuchar, Lummis Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Address Problems in Social Media Algorithms
4 min read · Feb 12th · Legislation would require social media platforms to implement features to address social media addiction and combat harmful use WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Cynthia Lummis (R… · Shared by 8, including Robert Lepenies
The New York Times
Yale’s Happiness Professor Says Anxiety Is Destroying Her Students
9 min read · Feb 21st · The cognitive scientist Laurie Santos says “we’re fighting cultural forces that are telling us, ‘You’re not happy enough.’” · Shared by 97, including Dave Nussbaum, Felix M, Howard Getson, justin caouette, Erin, Chaotic Goode, Chris Messina, Robert Roy Britt, Anne Helen Petersen, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Tiffany Shlain, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, C.C. Chapman (He/Him), Anita Leirfall, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #Abolishthemonarchy, Daron Larson
The Atlantic
People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much
~11 min read · 2021-10-22 · Breaking up social-media companies is one way to fix them. Shutting their users up is a better one. · Shared by 131, including Chris Messina, Michael Seemann, Chris {he, they}, Tactical Tech, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Mathew Ingram, Leni "Lee" Krsová 🎮⚔️, Andy Kirk
The Atlantic
It’s Not Misinformation. It’s Amplified Propaganda.
~11 min read · 2021-10-09 · You don’t need fake accounts to spread propaganda online. Real people will happily do it. · Shared by 129, including Matt Navarra, Mark Little, 🌏🔎Leigh Alexander 🐬💿✨, Brian Stelter, luis antónio santos, Renee DiResta, mdy, Lessig 🇺🇦, Chris Messina, Jason Hirschhorn, Amber Mac, Christopher Mims 🤌, 👨🏻💻☕️
PBS
The Facebook Dilemma
1 min read · From 2018 · A major, two-night investigation of the powerful social media platform’s impact on privacy and democracy in the U.S. and around the world. · Shared by 48, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, Kent Bye VoicesOfVR, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him), Luca Like, Johannes Lenz, Bryan William Jones, Klaus Eck, Chris Messina, Bjorn Larsen, Richard Deitsch, Remo Uherek
blog.youtube
Managing harmful vaccine content on YouTube
2 min read · 2021-09-29 · We're expanding our medical misinformation policies on YouTube with new guidelines on vaccines · Shared by 26, including Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Chris Messina, Tone Vays, Susan Wojcicki
The Atlantic
The Internet Doesn’t Have to Be Awful
20+ min read · 2021-03-09 · Our democratic habits have been killed off by an internet kleptocracy that profits from disinformation, polarization, and rage. Here’s how to fix that. · Shared by 305, including Chris Messina, Gerd Leonhard, Anne Applebaum, nicolatwilley, Kevin Marks, Mark Little, Anthony Hamelle, Mathew Ingram, Kyle Bunch, Brian Klaas, Gabriele, Eli Pariser 🏞📲, Brad Brooks, Merkstatt, Jane, luis antónio santos
about.fb.com
First Grants Announced for Independent Research on Social Media’s Impact on Democracy Using Facebook Data
3 min read · From 2020 · Yesterday the Wall Street Journal published a story claiming that Facebook “shut down efforts to make the site less divisive” and “largely shelved” internal research on whether social media increases… · Shared by 7, including Matt Navarra, Chris Messina
socialmediaharms.org
References for Concerned People
2 min read · 2021-09-23 · We Can Fix Toxic Social Media · Shared by 4, including Chris Messina
CNBC
Facebook's Instagram chief uses awkward comparison with cars to defend social media harms
2 min read · 2021-09-16 · Shared by 17, including Chris Messina, Matt Navarra, Mike Monteiro🌹
The Guardian
Constant craving: how digital media turned us all into dopamine addicts
7 min read · 2021-08-22 · According to addiction expert Dr Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies, with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit. So how do we beat our digital dependency, asks Jamie… · Shared by 63, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, SSA, Chris Messina, Tactical Tech
pages.gseis.ucla.edu
Toward a Critical Technical Practice
20+ min read · 2021-04-28 · 1 Introduction Every technology fits, in its own unique way, into a far-flung network of different sites of social practice. Some technologies are employed in a specific site, and in those cases we… · Shared by 10, including Chris Messina, Frank ⌁
NBC News
Who is the 'pizza king’? The secret language being used by anti-vaccine groups to skirt detection
3 min read · 2021-07-22 · Some anti-vaccination groups on Facebook are changing their names to euphemisms like “Dance Party” or “Dinner Party,” and using code words to fit those themes. · Shared by 35, including Mark Kaigwa, Chris Messina, Ian M Calvert, Mark Little, Mathew Ingram
Platformer
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination, reviewed
~12 min read · 2021-07-14 · Three ways of looking at a Facebook scandal · Shared by 13, including Casey Newton, Chris Messina
