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A comment on Facebook: 64% of the time users join extremist groups, the platform told them to. Parent comment

Re:Facebook: 64% of the time users join extremist groups, th... by asiando on Friday January 08, 2021 @03:45AM (#25682837)
Your last point rings true.

What’s the solution here? Prevent companies from using engagement as a metric? Do you want to be recommended random 13-views videos on YouTube? Because that’s what you get.

I don’t know if I’d like to lose good recommendation algorithms because of bad apples. However I don’t like bad apples either, they rot the whole batch.

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Re:Facebook: 64% of the time users join extremist groups, th... by j4yav on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:02PM (#25752649)
Sadly I don't know a good solution either, and I'm with you that it's not all bad. It's a complex problem for sure.
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