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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The whole business model of social media is a polarization machine. The algorithms that dredge up contentious and radical content, likes/dislikes, sharing and retweets - all deliberately designed to make us angry, anxious, and divided.
If you had assigned a team of psychologists and sociologists in 1980 a challenge to devise a machine to undermine social trust and civility, they wouldn’t possibly have dreamt up anything so effective as facebook, twitter, or reddit.
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Just look at the thanks button on CP, if you started tracking based on key words and ideologies you get the same posters always thanking the same content, same right/left attitudes and same people. Its a perfect case study on group think and it can spiral quite easily.