Spotlight — Humane Technology on '60 Minutes'

The weekly American news show 60 Minutes invited Center
for Humane Technology co-founder Tristan Harris back recently to
discuss political polarization and the anger and incivility that
gets elevated on social media as a matter of corporate profit.
We're releasing a special episode of Your Undivided
Attention this week to dig further into some of the important
nuances of the complexity of this problem.


CHT’s work was actually introduced to the world by Anderson
Cooper on 60 Minutes back in 2017, and we’re honored to
have been invited back. In this new interview, we cover the
business model of competing for engagement at all costs - the
real root of the problem that we’re thrilled to be able to
discuss on a far-reaching platform.


We also busted the myth that if you’re not on social media, you
don’t need to be concerned. Even if you're not on social media,
you likely live in a country that will vote based on other
people’s collective choices and behaviors. We know that the media
we engage with shapes the people who consume it.
 


CORRECTION: 


Tristan notes that Facebook's Head of Global Policy, Monika
Bickert, says in the  interview that social media can't be
the root of America's anger because it's people over the age of
60 who are most polarized. She actually said that people over the
age of 65 are most polarized.




RECOMMENDED MEDIA

60 Minutes: “Social Media and Political Polarization in
America”


https://humanetech.com/60minutes


Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman


https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/297276/amusing-ourselves-to-death-by-neil-postman/


Neil Postman’s groundbreaking book about the damaging effects of
television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed
as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth
century.


60 Minutes: “Brain Hacking”


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awAMTQZmvPE

RECOMMENDED YUA EPISODES 

Elon, Twitter, and the Gladiator Arena


https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/elon-twitter-and-the-gladiator-arena


Addressing the TikTok Threat


https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/bonus-addressing-the-tiktok-threat


What is Civil War In The Digital Age? With Barbara F Walter


https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/50-what-is-civil-war-in-the-digital-age