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Re:Facebook deliberately made people sad. This ought to be t... by tittenfick on Saturday April 17, 2021 @05:49PM (#26847727)
Social media algorithms are designed to show you things which make you upset because that type of content is highly likely to "engage."
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Re:Facebook deliberately made people sad. This ought to be t... by dbtc on Saturday April 17, 2021 @05:59PM (#26847803)
aren’t they designed to optimize for most engagement, in whichever way they can (which turns out to be with upsetting content)?

Or are people actually selecting specifically upsetting stuff?

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Re:Facebook deliberately made people sad. This ought to be t... by tittenfick on Saturday April 17, 2021 @06:37PM (#26848051)
Yes, they are designed to select for most engagement, regardless of the content.
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Re:Facebook deliberately made people sad. This ought to be t... by secondcoming on Saturday April 17, 2021 @06:04PM (#26847837)
It's not just algorithms, MSM do this too. 'Fear sells'
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Re:Facebook deliberately made people sad. This ought to be t... by smsm42 on Saturday April 17, 2021 @08:26PM (#26848686)
If it bleeds, it leads. That was invented long before social media and ML social manipulation algorithms.
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