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Weapons of Influence

Season 2020 Episode 102 | 55m 56s

The advent of big data has given corporate marketers, social media companies and politicians the ability to hack your autopilot system in shocking new ways. Learn why the survival of democracy itself is at stake and how you can protect it.

Aired: 09/15/20 | Expires: 09/09/24
Hacking Your Mind is a production of Oregon Public Broadcasting. OPB executive in charge of production, Steven M. Bass and executive producer, David Davis. Producer, writer and director, Carl Byker; series producer and writer, Kate McMahon; writer and host, Jacob Ward. Hacking Your Mind was made possible by a major grant from the National Science Foundation. Oregon Public Broadcasting is solely responsible for its contents. © 2020 Oregon Public Broadcasting
Extras
Hacking Your Mind for the good of society.
Our autopilot biases against “them” are tearing our country apart — but there is a fix.
Did you know you go through most of your life on autopilot with no owner's manual?
Watch kids in real time automatically divide people into “us” and “them”.
Discover the easiest way for a politician to change how people vote.
Discover how groups of monkeys AND of people appear hard wired to distrust other groups.
Find out why it's easy for others to hack into your mind and how to defend yourself.
Discover what dogs know that people don’t.
See cops convince other cops that they really are biased.
A stunning Chinese government technique to get social media users to police their friends.
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