Mainstreet Tech & Consequences: Social media and cognitive biases

This week CBC Radios Mainstreet is continuing to cover the anxieties people have about digital technology.

As part of that conversation we are joined this evening a live chat by Tim Caulfield, a University of Alberta law professor and Canada research chair in health and law policy. He is also the author of Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?

Caulfield is here today to take all your questions about how digital technology may be destroying our cognitive bias.

"We have all these cognitive biases that shape how we view the world. An interesting thing with social media and technology is that it really amplifies that cognitive bias," says Caulfield.

"Because you now can use the internet to confirm all of your views, you can use your echo chamber of friends that you have curated on Twitter to create a community that agrees with you."

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