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The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What? (yewtu.be)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Hirom@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Social media divides us, makes us more extreme and less empathetic, it riles us up or sucks us into doom scrolling, making us stressed and depressed. It feels like we need to touch grass and escape to the real world.

New research shows that we might have largely misinterpreted why this is the case. It turns out that the social media internet may uniquely undermine the way our brains work but not in the way you think.

This video is sponsored and contains an ad.

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spoiler: It's an ad.

[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The video includes an ad near the end. Like most video on YouTube, its creator rely on sponsors. Unfortunately they also placed the same ad at the beginning of the description. It's kind of repulsive if the first thing you look at is the description.

I wish I could scrub or remove the ad from the description, but it's automatically imported and I don't see how to remove it.