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And because social media platforms incentivize controversial opinions that get lots of engagement, even if most of it is disagreement. IMO this puts the carria
by dvtrn 7y ago
And because social media platforms incentivize controversial opinions that get lots of engagement, even if most of it is disagreement.
IMO this puts the carriage before the horse: the platforms incentivize engagement, sans enough social pressure to actually tackle it, the platform seems not to care much what that engagement looks like, and this is what we get.
- rconti 7y agoI agree, and I used to make this same technology-neutral point, but I figure we might as well call a spade a spade at this point, since it's obvious what we get.