Comments by "Rune of Svalbard" (@vladimirofsvalbard9477) on "Nomad Capitalist"
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The unrest and division we are seeing in the United States is a self fulfilling prophecy spawned by none other than social media corporations.
Facebook, Twitter, TikTok etc. all generate ad revenue purely from user engagement. This is why their algorithms are designed to be as addictive as humanly possible.
They are going to show you exactly what you want to see and on top of that they will show it to you in the most controversial order. Facebook began re-programming those algorithms in 2018 to show you the biggest dumpster fires first.
There's a reason that mainstream media has become so bad and it's very simple. They cannot compete with the user/viewer volume of the social media sites. It's absolute desperation on their part.
Yes, there are bad players, but most of this issue comes down to individuals making poor decisions.
Data markets are immensely lucrative. What you like, what you buy, which coupons you use, where you travel, what day of the week, what time, etc. All of this is sold and reduced to algorithms; they know you better than you know yourself.
They sell your consumer data and use the rest of your habitual behavior to make you engage more and more with platforms like Facebook.
Considering that Facebook had 1.9 Billion regular users, what could go wrong when you constantly incite an endless cycle of dumpster fires to people that are none the wiser that they are being manipulated?
This is the end result.
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