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>A growing body of research has linked social media to religious and racial violence. >Social media platforms build their businesses on sophisticated algorithm
by malwarebytess 8y ago
>A growing body of research has linked social media to religious and racial violence.
>Social media platforms build their businesses on sophisticated algorithms that serve up content that will keep users engaged. This favors posts that tap into negative, primal emotions like anger and fear, studies suggest.
I think governments, and researchers, are going to find that censoring social media doesn't have as large an effect as they imagine. Most of it is noise anyway. Buzz buzz.
- mlinksva 8y agoThe article does link to a couple papers which I have not read yet, but have added to my list. I'd love a link to the most current review of evidence on social media and crime. Surely there are some decent natural experiments by now. Is any jurisdiction doing RCTs?
- pugworthy 8y agoIt is noise, but the noise is fuel on a fire sometimes.