Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
by Consultant32452 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @10:41AM
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Dr. Robert Epstein has done some research on this and has testified before Congress about it. Here's one article. https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-google-search-bia...
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Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
by throwaway3699 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @11:50AM
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Not reality, but definitely the media we consume. It's no wonder those Search results skew left when most news articles do too.
Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
by bordercases on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @11:44AM
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"Objective absolute indifferent thing, has bias towards patchy intersubjective historically situated thing" sounds a lot less catchy when you unpack it.
Re:“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
by wizzwizz4 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @02:57PM
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It's a joke. Mainstream right-wing socioeconomic theories are falsified by reality more often than mainstream left-wing socioeconomic theories. (Of course, left-wing v.s. right-wing is a bad way to judge a socioeconomic theory; better to check whether it's right.)