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Pretty much. If you look at other EU countries, social media was essential in dividing the populations and promoting populist, nationalistic and xenophobic part

• mathlover2 5y ago
  Was social media the cause of the division, or did it merely allow people to exploit existing problems? Assuming that social media is a primary factor, for the sake of argument, the solution to this problem isn't regulating the platforms via Haidt's proposals (which I should add seem to be too limited in effect). Instead, we should decentralize the platforms into protocols. While this will still allow stupid people to go into echo chambers (like with any forum or blog online) it will also limit their reach by depriving them of a singular place for a giant number of people to hear them all at once.
  • redmen 5y ago
    We can spend forever debating this, or we can use our common sense that anything Zuckerberg touches is bad for society and probably causing deep rooted issues. Look, we can spend hundreds of years debating over which foods are bad for us and which are good, or we can just use our common sense and cut out sugars and bad oils. That'll solve 90%. Why waste time waiting for glacier-speed science to figure this out when we have this common sense. Stop anyone on the street and ask them if they think constant notifications, scrolling, phone addiction and apps like tinder, TikTok and Instagram are good for our brains. I'd be sad if people didn't unanimously agree that it's poison
    • idiotsecant 5y ago
      'common sense' often does not have either property.
      • redmen 5y ago
        It also ain't common either
  • quantified 5y ago
    Does media influence people, or is simply an expression of people? As ever, the answer is “Yes”.