The Daily Show, Mar 24, 2025

John Stewart on algorithms and social media:

the one place where speech isn’t free [is social media]. It’s speech incentivized for engagement and profit...social media is a machine designed to stimulate the reptilian parts of your brain that would otherwise beg you to go outside.

He continues:

social media is free speech in the way that Doritos are food: it’s ultra-processed, it’s designed in laboratories, it’s the same mechanism that somehow convinced you you should eat a [whole can of pringles]