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Real talk: blame social media algorithms keeping us into our echo chambers. They are unable to show you a mixed and impartial slice of the world, but if you one
by sph 2y ago
Real talk: blame social media algorithms keeping us into our echo chambers. They are unable to show you a mixed and impartial slice of the world, but if you one day click on topic X, they'll keep recommending related topics until all you see is topic X. All you see is people talking about topic X, they become viral and spread even further.
We, through naivety and greed, made the internet this way. It's not gonna get better any time soon, now that politics, social media and news keep feeding from themselves in a spiral of polarisation.
I am not familiar with that part of the world, but the relative neighbour of Bangladesh, Myanmar, has seen massive genocide and devastation thanks to hate campaigns that spread like wildfire thanks to Facebook a few years ago, while the fat cats in Silicon Valley in their ivory towers were totally oblivious first, and incapable later of dealing with it, while tens of thousand died and hundred of thousands fled as refugees.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide
https://youtu.be/K8B0bWO9u3M?si=x2WYJ_kGoipr6WWF https://youtu.be/K8B0bWO9u3M?si=x2WYJ_kGoipr6WWF