It's not a glitch.

People have spent billions to build systems where such dissemination of crowd emotion is the main difference from the real web (what was on geocities or even LJ, and a bit of that exists in Telegram, because it's a Russian honeypot to collect intelligence, and Russia could care a bit less about keeping the line that American social media corps, in its effort to make the honeypot actually attractive to use).

Then spent billions to advertise them. Billions to kill competition.

Then they've lost billions from that, and yet doubled down on it.

That just doesn't happen by accident, it's a whole era of humanity's history now. Like 20s-50s (the "bad" kind of change, with goosestepping, cult of strong people, attempts to save empires, preparations for a nuclear war, all that) and 60s-90s (the "good" kind of change, with space race, hippies in the west, Soviet official ideology being peace and unification of humanity - BTW, it's funny how the western politicians of that time freeloaded on that, never denying such a goal, but also never accepting it, thus getting the good parts without the hard ones) and then what we have.

It's both honestly. Overall I think the issue is rooted more in culture. Not tech. Secondly I am starting to question the role of media in yellow journalism to sell ads online by catering to crowds

Both what? Tf are you talking about??

i think he meant to respond with that to another thread or commenter. likely just a mis-post.

I mean, I guess? I dunno, I kinda wondered that at first, but I'm also kinda at a loss at to what other comment that could be a response to as well...? ‍️ I mean, it seems like it's at least in the right thread, mostly, from the context lol

Only if it's profitable or they're forced to do so through legislation. Otherwise they won't even try.

Fix? Bruh, they explicitly cultivate that shit. Even if they could, they're not gonna.

On both sides of what? What are you even talking about?

The misogynist and the peope who think to have some special right just because they are from $MINORITY_OF_THE_DAY

And what other media, exactly, is providing not only a public mouthpiece to, but also driving steady streams of traffic directly toward, unabashed misogynists and bigots? I’ll wait…

TV for one, or you are saying that channels like Fo New are harmless ?
But more generally every media is suitable to spread misinformation, some better than other, and I agree that currently social media are better at the "work", but it is not that before social media we have not misinformations, misogyny and violent extremism.

Social media is only a big resonance chamber for the $MINORITY_OF_THE_DAY that cry louder (and I am sure that you would understand why if you were not blinded by hate for tech companies) and they are getting more credit than they deserve.

To make you understand a little better (I hope) look at all the "go woke, go broke" rethoric. It is obvious that if you make a product following the demands of, say, 5% of the potential audience you cannot expect more than 5% of the potential audience like the product (ok, maybe a little more) and everyone who can think understand this.

But no, the $MINORITY_OF_THE_DAY must blame the social media if the product bomb, when often not even the majority of $MINORITY_OF_THE_DAY that demanded the product "use" it (be a movie, a game or whatever else) and then start to call else (the remaining 95% of the audience) misogynist and everything else just becasue they don't like what $MINORITY_OF_THE_DAY like.

You can definitely take your dogwhistles and white supremacist apologism and fuck right off with it tho

Probably better than to discuss with you about this.

Awww did i hurt the poor wittle racist's feelings? How sad

fix it? it fucking feeds into it!

It is interesting that you are not answering my point... Good work