I’m not on Twitter and don’t use Facebook much beyond being almost a digital scrapbook, but I’m on Instagram. Within the past six months ago the algorithm has made itself obvious to me.
I’ve been following a much wider range of people and activists, but suddenly small but consequential stuff started to slip in. Like someone sharing an “A…
I’m not on Twitter and don’t use Facebook much beyond being almost a digital scrapbook, but I’m on Instagram. Within the past six months ago the algorithm has made itself obvious to me.
I’ve been following a much wider range of people and activists, but suddenly small but consequential stuff started to slip in. Like someone sharing an “America must burn” statement amongst the self care memes. And I’m like holy shit, wait, what?
The algorithm was feeding me incrementally more radicalized social posts. Thankfully I have a strong enough sense of self to still disagree even with people I feel personally close to. Otherwise…woof.
Same here--I started seeing an increase in extremely aggressive political statements that even I--the co-founder of a radical political publisher--found too extreme. Not just "guillotine the rich" but "wipe out all straight people" stuff. The only thing that was more disturbing than these statements was seeing all the friends who "liked" them.
I’m not on Twitter and don’t use Facebook much beyond being almost a digital scrapbook, but I’m on Instagram. Within the past six months ago the algorithm has made itself obvious to me.
I’ve been following a much wider range of people and activists, but suddenly small but consequential stuff started to slip in. Like someone sharing an “America must burn” statement amongst the self care memes. And I’m like holy shit, wait, what?
The algorithm was feeding me incrementally more radicalized social posts. Thankfully I have a strong enough sense of self to still disagree even with people I feel personally close to. Otherwise…woof.
Same here--I started seeing an increase in extremely aggressive political statements that even I--the co-founder of a radical political publisher--found too extreme. Not just "guillotine the rich" but "wipe out all straight people" stuff. The only thing that was more disturbing than these statements was seeing all the friends who "liked" them.