🔎 Today’s Daily Sift: Social Media The attention economy just crossed a strange threshold. Social platforms are no longer optimizing for people creating content. They are optimizing for machines generating engagement. Over the last 24 hours, several signals snapped into alignment: The EU intensified pressure on TikTok, Meta, and X over addictive algorithm design and youth manipulation. TikTok simultaneously unveiled new AI advertising systems capable of automating creative production, targeting, and campaign execution. Instagram also tightened its algorithm against repost and aggregation accounts because platforms are now drowning in synthetic duplication. The deeper shift most people still miss: Social media is evolving into an AI mediated behavioral operating system. Feeds no longer simply distribute information. They simulate relevance. Every pause, replay, swipe, and emotional reaction becomes training data for systems that increasingly understand human impulse better...