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Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed (arstechnica.com)
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[–] bigbabybilly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Social media isn’t broken. It’s working exactly how it was meant to. We just need to break free of it.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

first of all, it's a broad overgeneralization to assume that all social media is created with the intention to manipulate people. there was honest people running social media, but it's long past. (in the corporate domain)

  • social media can be useful if it presents non-emotional, non-brigading content. rational discourse is one of the valuable options possible. throwing away the whole internet because Xitter sucks is throwing away the baby with the bathwater.

  • but yes, social media is the new Volksempfänger and manipulates people (social engineering)

[–] DSTGU@sopuli.xyz 1 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

No social media was created to manipulate people. (Most) social media is a business, optimised to make money. You make money by showing people ads. You can show more ads to people if they stay on the platform longer. You can make people stay longer by engaging them emotionally. End of conspiracy...

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

also propaganda is just political ads, and the way companies make money on the internet is by showing ads ..

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Facebook got their seed money from Peter Thiel. They also employ a lot of ex CIA. So not sure about the no conspiracy thing.

Also the millions they take in creating targeted political ads in order to manipulate their users and influence elections isn't a conspiracy. How they met with the President, kissed his ring, and then went all in on right wing content.

Yeah no conspiracy here, just keep walking