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what happened is the trolls and insane people got all the clicks and it made the public dumber.

• evv555 7y ago
  Would that have happened if these platforms "organised _the world's_ information, and made it _accessible_ and useful" instead of using engagement driven filter bubbles?
  • kbrwn 7y ago
    Facebook would be #1 in online advertising and we'd be using Bing on our Windows Phones.
  • knzhou 7y ago
    Yes. This inevitably results in all mass-adopted systems, even messaging services where people just talk to each other. It's not the systems, it's the people.