There are certainly people who are taking advantage of the hatred, the division, and the strife. Like Fox News, Ben Shapiro, etc.
But the real villain, the real enemy, are the algorithms designed to take advantage of you, to use you, to discard you, to do what it is told to do without consequence of what the actions are.
To engage you. To manipulation your emotions. To bring you content that keeps you hating...... because hate drives clicks, hate makes you watch.
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If you want to save the world, stop the division, stopping the grifters won't stop it.
You have to go after the corporations. Meta. Google. Apple. All of them, make these algorithms illegal. Ban them. Stop them.
The evil isn't coming from the other side, it's coming from where you are not looking.
The question is, what do we do about it? How do we explain it to people like my parents who are barely capable of using Facebook and email?
What do we do about it?
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@quinnsentialOne Thanks for sharing. It's a mystery to my why people get sucked in by these algorithms, but that does seem to be happening to a lot of people.
As a practical matter, how would you suggest outlawing "these algorithms"? Would any sort of recommendation system be verboten, or is there some way of identifying the malignant ones?