• Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It has a huge hold over our youth today, even folks up to 30. It’s so ubiquitous it’s used as a replacement for Google to find new information including political.

      Problem is it’s absolutely chock full of misinformation and propaganda, which doesn’t just exist on the platform, but is actively pushed on American youth today.

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        1 year ago

        It’s full of misinformation and propaganda unlike… You know… All those super reliable objective sources of information that you use?

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          1 year ago

          Oh yes VERY unlike those. Anything that can be traced and verified, aren’t read to you by an AI voice or a white person claiming to be an American while trying very hard to suppress an Eastern European or East Asian accent. Another good trait to have would be anything that isn’t verifiably false.

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              1 year ago

              Well that and whatever will keep you addicted and hopefully spending money. Rage, bias confirmation, propaganda that hits the class or group you belong to. And the more you trust it the more they can use that trust.

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              1 year ago

              Among other things.

              If it only showed you what you interacted with the most it’d be less of an issue but that’s not how it works. Thats not even how it works on YouTube.

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              1 year ago

              Thanks for proving why that platform is just so damned dangerous. The ignorance it inspires is shocking.