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Q: Can you discuss the psychological mechanisms or techniques employed by social media apps that contribute to addictive behavior?

A: Social media algorithms publish cognitive bias-based propaganda that causes addictive behavior.

Cognitive bias causes people to believe things.

Cognitive bias sometimes makes it almost impossible to figure out what’s really true.

There are over 220 types of cognitive biases which (social media) advertising and government propaganda use to cause people to make poor decisions without their realization, often leading to addictive behavior.

—Professor Addict

cognitive bias
a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment in humans
Instead of relying on objective truth, cognitive bias causes individuals to create their own subjective truth from the information they receive, resulting in distorted behavior, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation and irrationality.
Since the generic store brand shortening is actually identical to Crisco® shortening, she wasted money buying Crisco® shortening, due to her cognitive bias.
Because false advertising (i.e., lying) by corporations is illegal in the United States, cognitive bias is instead programmed into computer algorithms that are used in advertising to systematically control what people believe, how people make decisions and how people decide to act.
Facebook, Google and TV advertising manipulate cognitive bias to stoke an outrage machine that has supplanted old-fashioned public discourse.
Half the world’s people want to kill the other half, and vice versa, as a result of cognitive bias manipulation.
Lying to its citizens (i.e., government propaganda) by the United States government has been legal since the Patriot Act passed following the September 11, 2001 and subsequent anthrax attacks. Government propaganda uses cognitive bias to establish tribes against tribes, the good guys against the bad guys, the West versus the East, the Red People against the Blue People, etc. in order to distract its citizens, so those in power can get more power without being noticed.
Cognitive bias caused a mob to attack the U.S. Capitol.