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🔴 💻 **Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore**

Siân Boyle

_What will happen if we don’t get a handle on our declining cognitive health? The former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris told US Congress in 2019 that billions of people – “a psychological footprint about the size of Christianity” – now receive their information from platforms whose business model “links their profit to how much attention they capture, creating a ‘race to the bottom of the brain stem’ to extract attention by hacking lower into our lizard brains – into dopamine, fear, outrage – to win”._

🔗 theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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