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OPINION: The hate has always been here. But now it’s boiling over, and it’s become more socially acceptable to let white-nationalist, misogynistic, even murderous flags fly (by Jenn Jefferys/TVO)

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[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago

This is absolutely true: social media has allowed these groups to network, and the same algorithm that knows to feed me pictures of cute dogs to keep me on the platform also knows it helps to feed Nazi-adjacent rage-bait to keep vulnerable people engaged.

A huge, huge thing we could do is force social media companies to change to a simple, chronological algorithm, instead of one that's predicated on feeding users rage-bait.