Thompson: Social media feeds never accurately reflect broader public opinion
Derek Thompson · a16z Podcast | Addiction vs Popularity in the Age of Virality · Jan 2, 2019 · at 14:50
Derek Thompson, author of Hit Makers, explains the 'majority illusion' phenomenon in digital media on the a16z Podcast.
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“It's the illusion that your social network is accurately reflective of the world. And we should just try to build the instinct to think that it never is. That just because something seems ubiquitous to our local communities almost never means that it's necessarily A sort of universally held idea or universally attentive issue.”
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