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The Noise Between Us | Olivia Hong | TEDxYouth@YCYWShanghai
TEDx Talks· 2025-07-08 15:27
[Music] [Applause] Have you ever tried to convince a diehard Ronaldo fan how Messi is clearly the better player. or told an Italian friend how pineapple actually belongs on pizza. If you have, you know how frustrating yet almost impossible it feels to change someone's mind.But why is this so difficult. The answer lies in what Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein describes as the information cocoon. The information cocoon is a social phenomenon.It describes how social media and news algorithm surround us with ...
How social media hijacks our political perception | Luna Fast & Helin Turhan | TEDxBerlin
TEDx Talks· 2025-06-18 16:50
Hey Helen, do you remember back in CO when Trump made that weird statement suggesting that injecting disinfectant might be a potential cure to the pandemic. Yeah, Luna, I vividly remember how people actually believed him. I mean, looking back at the absurdity, it's easy to laugh, but at the time, it had serious consequences that could have been disastrous.Public confusion, media frenzy, and even cases of poisoning. We can all agree that the CO 19 pandemic was a time of fear. It was a time of hysteria and es ...