Study of TikTok, X 'For You' feeds in Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of federal elections | TechCrunch
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Drugs are bad, that was never in question
Your assertion, since you've forgotten, is that the War on Drugs was bad, which research would agree with
I'm sorry you're struggling with this. I hope you get well soon.
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Oh, we played wolf with my german grandmother in Argentina. I never knew it was a german folk game. Thank you for sharing this.
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Chronological is an algorithm too bruh. There's nothing inherently wrong with algorithms, they're just a tool. Modern social media tends to use them for engagement and advertiser$$, which is harmful.
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Drugs are bad, that was never in question
Whew, glad you don't get to decide what people put in their bodies.
Your assertion, since you’ve forgotten, is that the War on Drugs was bad, which research would agree with
Yes... and those who support the war on drugs can point to research saying drugs are bad. It's sad this has to be spelled out for you.
I’m sorry you’re struggling with this. I hope you get well soon.
Ironic, considering you've shown us you can't comprehend what you're reading.
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I live in the US, we've always called it "mafia". It probably has a million names. Among Us is based on the same game
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And if somebody points to research saying drugs are bad as justification for war on drugs, you can point to research that war on drugs is bad. Then they would get confused and start quoting every line of your comment one at a time as if to make it talk slower for them.
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Stay in school.
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Then I got one for you!
Sculptors in antique Rome could fix mistakes they made by mixing marble dust with wax.
If a sculptor was especially gifted and made no mistakes that needed fixing, they would market their art as "sin cera", which means "without wax", which is where the word "sincere" comes from -
Yeah, the extreme view about algorithms that's prevalent in the Fediverse feels a bit like someone finding a Nazi pamphlet on the ground and deciding that the problem is paper.
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My counterpoint to that would be that social media is a psychological drug with negative effects and if people want to be informed, they should go to a library and read.
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We have the greatest library in the history of mankind right at our fingertips.
Part of being informed is, you know, discussing information.
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And social media is not a library. Tiktok and X is not a library. It's a collection of thoughts of humanity and bots controlled by an algorithm where it's purpose is to manipulate you to consume. The Internet is not a library but it can give you access to libraries. The Internet is also now colonised for the purpose of manipulating people to consume.
Right now, we are not debating. You're telling me your opinion and I'm telling you mine. You want to be informed? Touch grass. Engage in human communication. Go. To. A. Library.
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or the printer. Great analogy
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Got more books right here than any library on earth.
Engage in human communication.
Like it or not, that's what social media is.
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That's was the original intent of social media but it doesn't function that way now. It's also filled with bots and you've got no idea if you're actually talking to a human being. The only way to be sure is to touch grass so you're actually outside the sphere of influence of misinformation and those that control the algorithm.
Let's go back to the topic at hand, which is whether or not we should remove fascist content from social media like Tiktok and X. These platforms are not a gateway to that library you linked to and you have to go out of your way, i.e. purposely search for it, to access it. Tiktok and X are full of sound bites that do more harm than good; posts with links to your library, for example, would not get the same exposure as, say, a sound bite promoting fascism. Case in point: the article.
The generation that has grown up with 24/7 access to the Internet have no idea what it feels like to not have information streaming into your brain everywhere you look. When information is fed and available to you 24/7, you can't learn to tell the difference between what's bullshit and what's not because the 24/7 stream is so overwhelming, all you have left is the will to scroll for sound bites. The only way to counter that is to step out of that stream and slow down the incoming information so you can process it and critically analyse it. Our brains can only process a maximum amount of information that is far below what an algorithm can do.
And that library link, what are you reading on there right now? Are you researching talking points against fascism? Are you looking at the history of previous fascist regimes and how they came to be?
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you’re actually outside the sphere of influence of misinformation and those that control the algorithm.
You think people you talk to outside of the internet aren't influenced by social media?
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Before the rise of corporate social media, yes. It was easy to speak with people who had different opinions on things because of their life experience.
Now, absolutely not because everyone is in some way connected to a stream of misinformation that is social media, which dictates the news cycle and determines what the talking points are for the day. But if society weaned itself off this social media drug, there is a better chance for improvement. At the very least, rage bait would be a lot less effective.
Getting back to what the discussion is though: you don't want censorship of certain ideologies because you believe that's a form of control that society doesn't need. You want a 'free' flow of information to allow the user to decide for themselves.
But that information isn't free flow. It's controlled by corporate interests. And removing fascist content and ideology on Tiktok and X from the general uninformed public? Hell yeah. If they want to look it up, they can read it in a history book and see what has actually happened under fascist regimes, then decide for themselves if they want that.
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I would definitely not want chronological order. I think people tend to forget how shit those are and how much low quality content there is, especially the bigger communities get. Try it right now on Lemmy or Reddit. I find the Active and Hot sorting on Lemmy pretty good, and those are not designed as algorithmical heroine.
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This sounds a lot like the concerns that were brought against TikTok after the Romanian elections were annulled in December.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-opens-investigation-into-tiktok-over-romanian-election/
X doing it is probably not going to surprise anyone.
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There's a card game version of it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Werewolves_of_Millers_Hollow
