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Sep 2025
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Social Media Keeps Getting Worse (How Yo...

Dan Koe
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People are quitting social media. The internet keeps getting worse. We're all tired of our attention being hijacked. What do we do?


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This podcast was originally a YouTube video:⁠ ⁠https://youtu.be/ni04Zp7mUMM


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