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Re:Meta staffers reportedly spar with Mark Zuckerberg after ... by woodruffw on Sunday March 19, 2023 @12:29PM (#35220645)
I understand the distinction you’re making, but I think the “radicalization” characterization is appropriate: my experience is that Facebook-exposed relatives place both more and more extreme value on policies that they might otherwise have.

Were they primed by other sources of media and culture exposure? Absolutely; what distinguishes Facebook is its place in the timeline, and the abundance of evidence that radicalization broadly tracks with social media engagement.

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Re:Meta staffers reportedly spar with Mark Zuckerberg after ... by acdha on Sunday March 19, 2023 @02:28PM (#35221994)
Yeah, Facebook really turned things up in my experience with the constant 24x7 promotion of increasingly extreme content. Fox News has limited hours in the day to produce new content and some editorial restraint, whereas Facebook would cheerfully take someone who was normally at, say, turn of the century WSJ-level conservative content and feed them stuff which Limbaugh wouldn’t have touched. After a while, they start thinking that’s normal.
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