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They're all shit. My particular ire towards Facebook has more to do with scandals like Cambridge Analytica. I think the platform is uniquely positioned to act a
by babypuncher 4y ago
They're all shit. My particular ire towards Facebook has more to do with scandals like Cambridge Analytica. I think the platform is uniquely positioned to act as a loudspeaker for politically motivated and dangerous misinformation in a way the other platforms aren't.
We live in a world where actual vaccine skeptics are being given high positions of power in state-level health organizations, and I place the blame for that squarely on social media.
- disgruntledphd2 4y ago> I place the blame for that squarely on social media. So clearly you don't believe in free will? There's definitely an element of echo chambers in most Internet media (echo chambers like HN, for example), and it's definitely possible that this is driving increased polarisation, but it's not a slamdunk argument. tl;dr not just social media, there's a lot of other stuff going on too (like, for instance, the outsourcing of manual labour out of the US).