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Algorithm manipulation, dopamine engineering, deepfakes, digital footprint, echo chambers, AI-generated content, and privacy
Recommendation algorithms don't show you what's true or useful — they show you what keeps you engaged. How platforms curate your reality, why extreme content wins, and how to take back control of your feed.
Social media was engineered using the same reward mechanisms as slot machines. Variable rewards, social validation loops, and the neuroscience of why you can't stop scrolling.
Google isn't a library — it's an ad platform that also returns search results. SEO gaming, paid placement, knowledge panel manipulation, and why the first result isn't the best result.
Your data is worth more than most products you buy. Data brokers, surveillance capitalism, behavioral prediction markets, and what "free" actually costs.
AI can now generate photorealistic video, clone any voice, and fabricate evidence. The technical reality, current detection limits, and how this changes trust in everything you see and hear.
Every click, search, purchase, and location ping creates a permanent record. Who collects it, who buys it, how it's used against you, and what you can actually do about it.
How algorithms and social sorting create information silos that distort your perception of reality. The difference between echo chambers and filter bubbles, why they're getting worse, and how to escape them.
Large language models, image generators, and synthetic media are flooding the information ecosystem. How to detect AI content, understand its limitations, and maintain epistemic standards in an era of infinite content generation.