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The conversation reveals a relentless race among tech giants—Facebook, Google, TikTok, YouTube—to capture ever-more attention. Features like trending feeds, likes, retweets, autoplay, and resharing have transformed social platforms into addiction engines. For instance:
The “most clicked” algorithmic prioritization fosters outrage, conspiracy theories, and polarizing content, as platforms deem outrage and extremism more engaging.
TikTok’s rapid video autoplay exemplifies this intensification, playing the first video instantly to hook users faster than other platforms.