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And if you go one more layer down, it's all about the economic engine, advertising, that underlies the modern social media algorithm. These services need to keep you scrolling because that increases your time engaged, increases the ads they can show you, which increases your value to them. So the revenue incentive is linked directly to the propagation of misinformation. Great business model, really bad for society!

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I’ve been involved in similar situations to the one at Block before, where employees believe they can protest inside the company to force leadership to take action on something, only to find out that in corporate terms that’s creating a hostile work environment and spreading negative morale throughout the company on purpose, which is a fireable offense to the CEO and HR. As a sometimes-activist employee, Jack’s “put up or shut up” pisses me right off. But in his shoes, who can blame him? There are undoubtedly people at Block who do not care about this issue, and no one to speak for them without being lambasted by the others. No one is going to put it to a vote, if such a thing was ever done, it would creates more team-wide morale issues. A company is a team, some types of dissent only tear it apart.

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I have request! Please label what site the links at the bottom lead to. It’s not a big thing, but I don’t have x or instagram, or a NYT a/c, for example, so there’s usually no point in me clicking on those.

Love these emails!

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