Podcast
Pivot
In "The Shame Machine," Cathy O'Neil discussed how public shaming, while sometimes beneficial, is often exploited by businesses and social media to increase profits and achieve other harmful goals.
She looks at the double-edged sword of public shaming, how it can help improve society but also how businesses, governments and social media exploit shame to increase profits and other cruel ends.
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In "The Shame Machine," Cathy O'Neil discussed how public shaming, while sometimes beneficial, is often exploited by businesses and social media to increase profits and achieve other harmful goals.
She looks at the double-edged sword of public shaming, how it can help improve society but also how businesses, governments and social media exploit shame to increase profits and other cruel ends.
I wrote a book called Weapons of Math Destruction.
And yeah, so I was researching actually the way shame came up for me was that I was researching that book. I was talking to teachers who had been fired with an algorithm that nobody could explain to them.