Study of TikTok, X 'For You' feeds in Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of federal elections | TechCrunch
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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
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All feeds on all platforms are skewed right if not even extreme right since years.
You have to block (far) right channels on YouTube to not get their crap videos suggested again and again.
Add to that the brain frying effect of short clip after short clip on IG, YT and TikTok you get those right wing zombies.
We should really ban all of these platforms in the EU - including Xitter, FB.
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Unfettered platforms will be overrun in no time. Hate and bigotry are incredibly easy to create and sell.
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I call it Secret Hitler.
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yea, before tiktok wash pushing alot of anti-israeli content, or bias, of course usa is very uncomfortable for the war effort, and helping turmp win. and it wasnt only pushing right leaning but left leaning that could contradic tit.
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reddit is doing this too, at first it leaned left but recently they allowed more astroturfing from right wingers to swamp the subs, so now they are banning any remotely things that can be critical of right wing views. the reason it leans more right is, because they are allowing so much trump based news like with MSM.
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the war on drugs in the US, was an invention by nixon as a way to truncate/distract the public from his own problems when he was making scandal after scandal in office. NIXON, REAGAN, ,,,etc.
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are off your meds
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half of the comments on some subs, if not the whole site of reddit are bots(mostly from countries like RU and Israel(if you are in a post specific to that region).
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This game is either “mafia” or “werewolves” in Poland. Really fun to play but it sucks how much real life mirrors it…
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Sure! We can do chronological, most liked, most disliked, most comments. Solid metrics though, nothing that the social media companies can obscure
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Are you three even old enough to remember an internet before the algorithms?
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It still exists in some places
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Perhaps dismantling the social media oligarchy by ensuring that companies cannot expand to sizes where they can influence policies? I'm open to ideas. Social media has become a huge psyop tool.
