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Old 11-02-2020, 01:12 PM   #8804
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The algorithms are such that it serves you videos you want to see, not videos you should see to get a complete picture. It's a perpetuating fallacy - Facebook and Twitter are probably the two worst of them.

Social media is no small part of the descent into political chaos in the Western world.
This is true. More than that though, it's also in part that we enjoy receiving info that confirms our world views and because we're a social species we like to belong in our social groups and nobody likes to find themselves on the outside for expressing views that don't fit in.We need to actually choose to go listen to what sources from outside our bubbles are saying, but there are social and emotional forces that inhibit that too. How many actually take the time to go outside their bubble to listen in on other bubbles and bring that back to their social group for a discussion that isn't based on attacking outside views and reconfirming inside views?

Social media has exacerbated these issues terribly, but the problem arises out of something in us as well, not merely out of something in the algorithms.
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