• Meldroc@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Algorithm’s designed to promote engagement. Getting angry groups screaming and trying to murder people counts as engagement.

    As long as the screaming and arguing happens on their site and drives ad revenue, they don’t care about the murdering part.

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      1 year ago

      Good point!

      I’ve written before that I think a lot of these sites intentionally do the Jerry Springer thing.

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        1 year ago

        Oh, no doubt.

        And there are plenty of groups out there that know how to create …engaging… videos, specifically for the purpose of getting people to hate the Other of the Week. Wouldn’t want the peasants to figure out who’s really screwing them…

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          That’s a good point too.

          Honestly, the anti-establishment left and the anti-establishment right have a lot they could agree on if there wasn’t so much media pointing out the few things they disagree on (or inventing things to disagree on)