U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly

Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by zepto on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:29PM (#24843741)

Two points:

1. It doesn’t matter what the valence of the emotions are - positive or negative valence feedback loops will spread misinformation and disinformation. Positive emotion is not correlated with truth.

2. If you haven’t heard about this idea before, here is a starting point: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/05/opinion/digital-technolog...

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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by imheretolearn on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:57PM (#24843898)

>> Positive emotion is not correlated with truth.

I assumed from your previous comment(below) that you are correlating negative emotion with misinformation and disinformation. If that's not what you meant, then I guess I misunderstood what you meant by your previous comment

>> Facebook has designed its algorithms for spreading misinformation and disinformation, because emotion drives engagement

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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by afiori on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @04:04AM (#24845723)

The easiest negative emotion to cause with a post is outrage, which goes nicely with fake news.

The easiest positive emotion to cause are at the result of puppies and wholesome/faith-in-humanity-restored posts, neither are generally related to actual truthful news.

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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by zepto on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:07PM (#24843941)

I don’t see how that assumption is implied by anything I said in what you quoted. There is no reference to the valence of the emotion.

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