NY Times on the radicalization of the internet: 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/24/opinion/sunday/facebook-twitter-terrorism-extremism.html

Evgenii 🤖

Even Facebook content moderators (contractors) who’s jobs are specifically scrubbing away false and especially harmful content are slowly going insane and starting to believe in conspiracy theories (not to mention horrible trauma and damaged mental health).  https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona

On a podcast today Kara Swisher mentioned her teenage son consuming some mildly right leaning content and ~2 clicks later, he’s suddenly deep in neo-nazi land. Here’s a good explanation from a former youtube engineer on how these blind algos end up promoting this and create a vicious cycle - https://threader.app/thread/1094359564559044610

Evgenii 🤖

A group of likeminded people in TechCrunch Social are talking about this.