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Re:Conspiracy theories bypass people’s rationality by dragontamer on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @11:58AM (#29015014)
The point is that Facebook has a machine learning algorithm that assigns 5x as many points to ":-(" than to "like".

Sure, conspiracies exist on occasion. But by favoring the "angry" conspiracies over all others, you're still making a negative environment.

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Re:Conspiracy theories bypass people’s rationality by hunterb123 on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @12:04PM (#29015106)
I was replying more generically to you. I don't feel like that FB revelation relates to conspiracies at all. It's the same tactic news outlets use, emotional kneejerk stories gets people mad so they keep coming back.
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