‘Anger generates clicks; clicks generate profit,’ Chuck Todd says on big tech



From national security threats to a business sustained by turning our attention into a commodity to profit from, Chuck Todd delves into how big tech has disrupted our democracy.

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31 comments

  1. I get angry when Chuck Todd speaks…

  2. International Communist don't like competition.

  3. I was just thinking they had the same morals as someone selling tickets to public hangings.

  4. What has "disrupted" our democracy, Todd, is America's deranged right wing cults (MAGA, Q Anon, Evangelicals and other associated human trash) who live in an alternate reality eco-chamber. All the more reason to de-platform them all. Shouldn't you be on Faux News?

  5. Oh like legacy news media, cable news that made money screaming orange man bad constantly 24hr a day, and Russia collision and new Trump conspiracy everyday ?

  6. everyone loves it until someone who can't be controlled takes over.

  7. THE PRESIDENTS were never supposed to have the POWERS they DO TODAY… WHY?

    …. because neither the Democrats or the Republicans work for the PEOPLE….

    ……. they work for the RICH WEALTHY and BILLIONAIRES ……

    ……… and their MISSION IS TO IMPACT U.S. Citizens Negatively! … just saying.

  8. WEALTH ONLY IN THE HANDS OF A FEW are like THE INTERNET — CORUPTED & Dangerous!

  9. QAnon are HEDONIST and IDOLIZE WEALTH celebrating SIN they weaken the morals of their Congregation to the point they BEG TO BE SERVANTS & be used as Pawns. Christian Nationalism or any Religion Muslim or Jew are hand in hand not with GOD, but with a BANK of MONEY & PROMISES never kept to the Congregations they lead.

  10. DEFUND BILLIONAIRES

    A CAP ON WEALTH up to $999,999,999.99 Cents and not 1 CENT MORE!

    …… A Cap on Inherited Wealth to no more than $10,000,000.00 only to siblings.

    and …… SUNSET CORPORATION after 5 Years. – m.

  11. THE PLANET IS AT ""WAR"" & BILLIONAIRES are the THREAT. Germany was attacked by BILLIONAIRE MONEY given BY THE KOCH FAMILY and then using QAnon idiots as their MULES for Weapons & make Germany Fascist-Nazi again. remember this….

    It's pretty simple… as the RICH GOT RICHER our Democracy became Weaker!

  12. FACEBOOK are another BILLIONAIRE MURDER… all Billionaires are MURDERS…..

    …. there is no possible way to have that KIND OF WEALTH without the cross over to MURDER for the sake of Personal Power…..

    …… BILLIONAIRES are THROWING AMERICANS out of WINDOWS like PUTIN! – m.

  13. The phony Steele dossier generated clicks. The Russian collusion conspiracy theory hoax generated clicks, just like the lies about Russia putting a bounty on American soldiers, Jussie Smollett and Rittenhouse being racially motivated, the lies about Jussie Pelosis attacker, the Ghost of Kyiv and Snake Island massacre lies all generated clicks.

  14. they weren't complaining when big tech helped them win an election by suppressing news about the bidens

  15. This is what happens when you have unfettered capitalism. All of your politicians who are supposed to be representing you are instead representing big business. By creating lies on the internet they have created two diametrically opposed political parties to keep the average person who cannot think for him/herself from the real truth. The truth is both parties are in bed with the super rich. The differences in the two are social. They don't mean anything to the average worker who wants to get ahead and own a home, make a decent salary and spend time with family. The policies are all designed to keep the America citizen at war with the other party while the rich steal all the money and the poor are too dumb to see it happening.

  16. It’s not just FB it’s all platforms. Go 5 comments down in this stream.

  17. It was bad until Musk got on. Now its not so one sided. It was ALL ONW SIDED BEFORE. THE WHOLE RUSSIAN THING WAS FAKE AND MADE UP BY THE LEFT.

  18. We are a federal republic.

  19. Can we please have for all posting the national origins of the post? Did it originate in the USA, China, or some other nation? If you bounce around before landing you can't post. Servers know this data.. You have to come from an ISP based account, whether business or personal account. Something to add transparency whule keeping public privacy.

  20. Social networks disrupt the Zionists movement!!!! Misinformation on vaccines is propagated by big money and big pharma. Who comes out with a vaccine in a year?..hahahahhahaha, shove it up your a–

  21. Investing in crypto now should be in every wise individuals list, in some months time you'll be ecstatic with the decision you made today.

  22. Hate and discontent run like madness through society when clicks run your life, and profits without soul.
    Greed without conscience, like using drinking water from your sewer system.
    Be SELF – AWARE. It's not a time square. It's a theatre in which social medias yells fire perpetually.

  23. This is why I have no facebook, no twitter, no instagram, no nothing! Social media takes you to dark places.

  24. so is your mentalitys, but those who come from fake, only speak lies, and have only lived lies, wouldnt be able to write or read properly anyway. Then the rich clawing away at anything they can, with no visable flesh left on their fingers.

  25. new year to everyone who are celebrating today despite the economic downturn I'm so happy. I have been earning $5000 returns from my $2000 investment every 15days

  26. 0:000:46 Do you hear what you are saying?!🪞

    What is the DIFFERENCE between the two definitions below:

    Social Media “websites and other online means of communication that are used by large groups of people to share information and to develop social and professional contacts: Many businesses are utilizing social media to generate sales.”

    Propaganda
    “a mode of communication that is used to manipulate or influence the opinion of groups to support a cause or belief. The Nazi party used speeches, posters, and films…”

  27. All the social media companies have done is take what faux journalists like you do further. You have long viewed your "job" to be acting on behalf of the huge corporations to control public opinion, and to profit from that. Social media found a new way to profit from manipulation of public opinion. Neither of you care about Democracy or America and neither you have the slightest interest in acting responsibly or doing you'd actual jobs.

  28. It's the same for all media. Yours newschannel included.

  29. Quit watching the news (is a solution to successfully avoiding being programmed by disinformation.)
    I mean, or do your own research off major platforms: rumble, truth social, rofkin, etc)