Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
by ethbro on Friday June 26, 2020 @10:02PM
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I used to think that, but I don't think it's going to happen unless we criminalize some level of human impulse hacking.
At their base, social media platforms specifically engineer their desired behavior, powered by obscene amounts of money and technical effort, but largely independent of their users' own preexisting wants and needs.
Facebook et al. are the 21st century equivalent of a <blink> tag.
Not all of them bad ones. I suspect once we've finished adjusting to the new digital reality it will have, on balance, made us smarter.
If giving more people access to more information and a place in the cultural conversation doesn't improve things then the human race was doomed anyway.