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The investigation looked at what content from political parties and politicians is shown to newly created accounts that are interested in parties and politicians from either the left or the right.
It found that the algorithms push content from the far right to the right-leaning and left-leaning accounts and, to a lesser extent, push content from the radical left to left-leaning accounts.
Anything centralized can and will be used to abuse the population at the behest of the rich and powerful. The open social web is the only answer.
And thank you all for being here.
Algorithmic content is arguably the worst thing to come out of the internet.
It has made it much easier for these companies to manipulate what people see and feed into their fears and delusions.
Algorithmic content is not bad per se. It’s the algorithms that are specifically designed to create division and hate. The people who design these things know what they’re doing and are doing it because the outcomes are that they want to achieve.
We have overt fascists literally controlling the internet and people are still spouting complaints about “algorithms”. jfc.
Seriously who upvotes this nonsense? This is how we got here.
More than one thing can be bad about the internet at the same time.
Furthermore, the fascists are the one that put the algorithms in place and control them.
It’s the same problem.
the fascists are the one that put the algorithms in place.
Actually no. Every single program is an “algorithm”. Sorting by date is an “algorithm”.
You’re literally crying about something that’s ubiquitous. And that’s literally how we got here.
Do you really want more state control of “social media”? You want these wonderful fash controlling those dangerous algorithms? smh.
I don’t want any social media homie
You’re barking up the wrong tree
Take a chill pill
DAE remember all the libs calling for state control of TikTok? Still calling for state control of “social media”?
This is what they gave us.
Liberalism <—> Fascism.
The downvotes are coming from liberals that refuse to acknowledge they directly support fascism
I do wonder how much of this is just that moderate parties are boring.
Good policy is boring. Good government is boring. A company with moderate growth targets is boring.
Well-informed, articulate, and smart opinions… are boring.
I think it’s more about rage bait. The far right just happens to have the best rage bait for the moderate majority.
Because the right censors that and feeds anti-socialist propaganda to the media so people misunderstand it and don’t try to fight it.
because everyone thinks they are middle-class, and everyone aspires to be rich.
very few people think improving the conditions of the working class is a worthwhile goal… the goal is to get out of the working class and feel superior to them.
And any resistance to those policies is met with more rage from the right, its a self propelling cycle.
Keeping food in the supermarkets and having working infrastructure will definitely generate less ad revenue… I mean “engagement” than threatening to kill all foreigners and LGBT people.
Also the fact that people with moderate views don’t tend to watch political content all that much.
Yeah “centricism” is just privileged fascism. It’s the privilege of being completely ignorant and complacent while people are genocided, concentration camped, etc.
Overt fascism definitely drives more clicks.
Thanks for another article to dislodge friends from The Poison™.
US TikTok, and that’s the point. Also, we know X is under opposition control. That’s no secret.
I am so tired of “journalism” that’s just shocked Pikachuing about crap that people already know, and HAVE already known, for YEARS.
It’s either a total waste of time, or people are so thick and oblivious that they don’t know something that’s been staring them DIRECTLY In the face for AGES, and I honestly can’t decide which explanation is more depressing.
I don’t know how far my mouth can gape from shock, but who you have known
