60 Minutes has the story of China flooding America with digital opium while their children feast on digital spinach.

“It’s almost like [Chinese company Bytedance] recognize[s] that technology’s influencing kids’ development, and they make their domestic version a spinach TikTok, while they ship the opium version to the rest of the world,” says Tristan Harris. https://t.co/Jro1FTGjKB pic.twitter.com/kZ4ucLerar

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 7, 2022

Story:

“The more moral outrageous language you use, the more inflammatory language, contemptuous language, the more indignation you use, the more it will get shared. So we are being rewarded for being division entrepreneurs. The better you are at innovating a new way to be divisive, we will pay you in more likes, followers and retweets.”

That’s what Tristan Harris, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, told Bill Whitaker this week on 60 Mintues.

In his 2020 documentary, “The Social Dilemma,” Harris made the case that social media platforms have hijacked our attention. Now, he’s citing a new study of Twitter showing that attacking political opponents is almost guaranteed to draw attention.

Of course, the Democrats are cracking down on American-owned Facebook and Twitter while giving Chinese-owned TikTok wide leeway to pump whatever the hell they want into our nation’s digital bloodstream.

Here’s a longer segment from 60 Minutes: