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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 to take back control of your social media feed | Montserrat Caso Fernández | TEDxBath University
TEDx Talks· 2025-06-12 15:50
What if I told you that social media algorithms function much like your own mind. And when you're scrolling, you are not just killing time, but looking at your digital mirror. Shocking, right.Let me explain it to you with an analogy. When a thought triggers a strong emotional reaction, it tends to resurface in your mind repeatedly. The same happens for the algorithms.When you react emotionally to a post, the algorithm takes note and it will likely show you that type of content or something very very similar ...