Intention

The first of Tristan Harris’ intentions with the talk “How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day” is to inform the audience of how tech companies and internet platforms take advantage of human psychology for their own profit. This means that he wants people to become aware that they are being exploited by tech companies.

He builds ethos as a speaker when he refers to his previous job at Google and his academic background to show the audience that he understands the topic and has the knowledge to speak about it. 

He builds logos when he provides specific examples meant to illustrate his idea. For example, he talks about YouTube, Netflix, and Facebook changing their algorithms to manipulate people into spending more time on their platforms:

YouTube wants to maximize how much time you spend. And so what do the...