The world’s five largest companies all monetize captured attention

Evidence

The five largest companies in the world, each valued at over two trillion dollars, share a core business operation: the capture and monetization of attention. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 81

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader thesis that attention extraction is industrial-scale and built into the dominant economic order — supports the manifesto’s diagnosis that the enemy is not a fringe actor but the largest firms on Earth.

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