1. What does Lanier say happens to movements created on BUMMER platforms by young idealistic people who want to better the world?

2. How was Lanier's notion of what happens to idealism on BUMMER reflected by events during the Arab Spring?

3. Why did the Tump campaign's Facebook ads receive a multiplier effect beyond just the amount of ads bought?

4. What does Lanier sawy was the secondary effect that Black Lives Matter had on the larger population who opposed it?

5. Why does Lanier think the best metaphor to explain the impact of BUMMER platforms is religion?

6. Why does Lanier say that launching a popular meme undermines its own claims to truth?

7. Why does Lanier say that BUMMER's stated purpose to optimize irritates him the most?

8.What does Lanier find is creepy about Google's project to solve death?

9. What is AI's counterpart to the evangelical Christian Rapture  . . . and what happens during that?

10. Why does Lanier say that BUMMER promotes anti-magic?

11. How does Lanier say you could be a better news consumer without the BUMMER platforms?

12. How does Lanier say that "being a cat" and leaving Facebook is like learning to write?

13. Why does Lanier think a person will greatly benefit from leaving social mediafor a while or forever?

14. Why does Lanier say "negative partisanship" is at an all-time high?

15. Why did Lanier decide to put the directive to delete your social media ccounts now when he knew it was unlikely many people would?