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Examines the design incentives and evidence behind divisive-content amplification in India, from algorithmic feeds to misinformation and hate-speech trends, and asks whether platforms can be designed to reward cohesion instead of fracture.
Synthesizes the Designing for Substance arc into a practical north star: platform success should be measured by whether users leave with more clarity, skill, or civic capacity than they had when they arrived.
Surveys product and platform alternatives that could shift attention incentives from extraction to substance, evaluates build-new versus change-existing strategies, and proposes five differentiated product concepts with rationale and risks.
Explores how engagement-based ranking and ad-supported business models are design choices, not natural laws. Cites evidence that alternative metrics can reduce divisive amplification and asks what it would take to make substance the default.
Compares revenue models and their incentive effects, arguing that business-model diversity is a precondition for design diversity.
Surveys how AI can amplify attention extraction through synthetic media, hyper-personalization, and automated influence, and argues for guardrails before scale.
This synthesis article maps the actors and interventions that can redirect India's digital infrastructure toward substance—from individual habits and household rules to platform design, investor pressure, regulation, and civic accountability.
An exploration of how platform incentives could be redesigned to reward substance over extraction, from regulation and metrics to product alternatives like the fediverse.