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The investigation looked at what content from political parties and politicians is shown to newly created accounts that are interested in parties and politicians from either the left or the right.
It found that the algorithms push content from the far right to the right-leaning and left-leaning accounts and, to a lesser extent, push content from the radical left to left-leaning accounts.
Algorithmic content is arguably the worst thing to come out of the internet.
It has made it much easier for these companies to manipulate what people see and feed into their fears and delusions.
Algorithmic content is not bad per se. It’s the algorithms that are specifically designed to create division and hate. The people who design these things know what they’re doing and are doing it because the outcomes are that they want to achieve.
We have overt fascists literally controlling the internet and people are still spouting complaints about “algorithms”. jfc.
Seriously who upvotes this nonsense?
More than one thing can be bad about the internet at the same time.
Furthermore, the fascists are the one that put the algorithms in place. It’s the same problem.