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Yishan says, >I'm now going to reveal the institutional bias of every large social network (i.e. FB, Twitter, Reddit): >Are you ready? >Here it is... >They

Yishan says, >I'm now going to reveal the institutional bias of every large social network (i.e. FB, Twitter, Reddit): >Are you ready? >Here it is... >They would like you (the users) to stop squabbling over stupid shit and causing drama so that they can spend their time writing more features and not have to adjudicate your stupid little fights. >That's all. Yeah, as if 'users squabbling over stupid shit and causing drama' did not result in higher engagement rates and these platforms did not exploit that for their own gains.

smsm42 5y ago
Sorry, I'd buy this "we're completely apolitical and just want everybody to be nice" if only I didn't have in front of my eyes years of behavior proving otherwise, and admissions on many top people that they have political bias - including by then CEO Dorsey - and their current behavior, when they feel their control is maybe going to slip away. Nobody would panic about Musk because must wouldn't let them do develop more features. The'd panic about Musk because they think Musk's politics is different from theirs and he won't let them enforce their politics as they are used to. That's it.