• Eve_Rising [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        3 days ago

        Yeah and conspiracies are literally all pervasive at this point. I think covid isolation pushed ppl online a lot more and broke a whole lot of brains

        • Tom742 [they/them, any]@hexbear.net
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          3 days ago

          Hadn’t thought about the pushing people online aspect, I think we’ve known for a while what the negative effects are but not until now has it become so pervasive we can see the effects en mass

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            Yeah I’ve seen at least two studies showing that no matter what stuff you’re into online, the algo pushes you into the right-wing and into conspiracies, which both tend to overlap. I know FB and YT shifted their algos in 2019 (and obvs X later) after RWers threw a fit that they were “biased” against conservative hate-content. Now it’s like no matter what I watch on YT I get anti trans and RW bullshit. I literally never click on them, yet they keep getting pushed