> because they worry that most people aren’t as smart as them and thus while they (the advocates) are above being brainwashed, the rest of the netizens aren’t a

> because they worry that most people aren’t as smart as them and thus while they (the advocates) are above being brainwashed, the rest of the netizens aren’t and will succumb to fascism I used to think this, but then I realized that algorithmic radicalization is not a bug that social media companies are working to fix. It is a feature. Social media does not work without an algorithm hyper-focusing your feed onto the most extreme bullshit takes.