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Not just Facebook, all of the big platforms. Twitter and Reddit also stoke division, outrage, echo chambers for profit. Example of bad faith from Twitter: allo
by hackerlight 4y ago
Not just Facebook, all of the big platforms. Twitter and Reddit also stoke division, outrage, echo chambers for profit.
Example of bad faith from Twitter: allowing users to disable replies in order to prevent harassment by mobs, but still sneakily allowing mobs to use quote tweets to dunk. It's transparent. They just want to appear to be addressing the problem (maybe to placate a small contingent of outspoken employees by greenwashing) without actually addressing it.
Another example of bad faith: resorting to content moderation because the real fix (altering dynamics) will cost them engagement.
What's needed is regulation. I don't think the US will be able to do it, both because of ideology and political dysfunction, it'll have to be the EU.
- myspy 4y agoI agree, good post.