▲ 137 ▼ "Deprogramming" the Trump cult (www.salon.com) submitted 2 years ago by YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 71 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] vagrantprodigy@lemmy.whynotdrs.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Shutting down Facebook would be huge. It's a cesspool of propaganda. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] TechyDad@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* A lot of social media and sites with algorithms are problematic. They tend to steer people to content that's more and more radical in nature. You start out with innocuous stuff, but the more extreme the content, the bigger the reaction, and thus the algorithm will guide the user to more of that content. (Ryan George illustrated this perfectly: https://youtu.be/x1aZEz8BQiU?si=g3xw0tbDV-4vSyCH ) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TechyDad@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* A lot of social media and sites with algorithms are problematic. They tend to steer people to content that's more and more radical in nature. You start out with innocuous stuff, but the more extreme the content, the bigger the reaction, and thus the algorithm will guide the user to more of that content. (Ryan George illustrated this perfectly: https://youtu.be/x1aZEz8BQiU?si=g3xw0tbDV-4vSyCH ) permalink fedilink source parent