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I'm starting to wonder if the most important thing about the YouTube Kids controversy is that, as adults, it's really easy for us to see through the scam. Kids are fascinated by gross stuff, so the algorithms serve it up.

But is it so easy to see what Twitter/Facebook are doing to our brains? It's the exact same system, except instead of creepy dentist videos it's scary news articles, moral outrage, sex scandals, economic anxieties, etc.