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TexasTowelie

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Thu Oct 2, 2025, 04:37 PM Oct 2025

Our Kids IQs Are Dropping. Is Big Tech to Blame? - More Perfect Union



Big Tech is profiting at the expense of our kids. Silicon Valley has sold the idea of tech in classrooms for years, because they get access to lifelong customers and valuable data. But while corporations like Google make billions, student test scores are falling.
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Our Kids IQs Are Dropping. Is Big Tech to Blame? - More Perfect Union (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2025 OP
Social media make money off of providing chewing gum for the eyeballs they sell to advertisers Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2025 #1

Bernardo de La Paz

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1. Social media make money off of providing chewing gum for the eyeballs they sell to advertisers
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 05:52 PM
Oct 2025

Lots of money to be made in polarization.
Not so much in enhancing thinking.

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