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The people sending the messages and threats are online. They can kill her due to the radicalized state the networks push them to even if she's offline and this

The people sending the messages and threats are online. They can kill her due to the radicalized state the networks push them to even if she's offline and this happened in the past. I think you read the bad title... The article is fair and correct. There's an inherent problem with the social network algorithms that radicalizes extreme views. This isn't free speech. It's the opposite of that. Facebook nudges these people into an echo chamber of hatred. They don't hear contradictory speech that might get through and moderate them a bit. Just the hatred to keep them online and clicking.

salawat 5y ago
This implies that the individual doing the horrible posting is not culpable for their own actions; Facebook is for nudging them into an echo chamber. Where's the inflection point where one has ultimate authority over their own actions? I find it hard to swallow the pill of "the social network made me do it." To be clear, I'm not saying social media doesn't have or amplify problems. I just fear the abdication of personal responsibility there. That leads to some seriously dark avenues.