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Society is a collective problem, not an individual one. It's fine for me to turn off Twitter but if suddenly my neighbor starts electing neo-nazis because they'
by Traster 5y ago
Society is a collective problem, not an individual one. It's fine for me to turn off Twitter but if suddenly my neighbor starts electing neo-nazis because they've been radicalized by far-right fake content mills on Twitter then we've got a problem.
And this is especially a problem on social media, because everyone sees a different algorithmic feed - which means I might not even know that my neigbour is being slowly radicalized. It's one thing if Tucker Carlson starts praising Putin, we can have a conversation in public about what Carlson thinks and whether Russians committing genocide should be praised. It's out in the open for us to see and discuss. But if Alex Jones' clips are being drip fed into the newsfeed of people without ever facing the scrutiny of public discourse we have a problem. This was very well established by Youtube, and eventually addressed to some extent by youtube.
Do we think Musk is going to have thought this through, or are we going to see more "Move fast break things".