Due to social media, literally anyone with internet access and a loud voice has been able to get attention for any crackpot political opinion.

  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
    15·
    3 个月前

    Nah, it’s worse than just giving everyone a voice. That wouldn’t be too bad.

    The really bad part is that they figured out about more extreme/controversial/negative voices tend to draw more engagement, more time spent on platform, and therefore more ad views. Facebook and the rest didn’t just give the worst of us a voice – they amplified the voices of the worst of us, far more than for normal people, all in the name of squeezing just a little bit more profit out of the system.

    • rayyy@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      3 个月前

      Nicely summed up. One more point though: “Using the propaganda model…news businesses favoring profit over the public interest succeed, whilst those favoring reportorial accuracy over profits fail — and are relegated to the margins of their markets (low sales and ratings)”.