I blame profit driven SM only so far as that in an effort to appeal to a wider audience, they have succeeded and now there are even more people online using them so we actually have a closer look at reality and how there’s a shitton of people who don’t see the reality of climate change anywhere.
Comment on Social media is becoming infested with climate change denial and misinformation
funtrek@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Profit driven social media is the problem.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
4am@lemm.ee 3 months ago
That effort to appeal is by boosting ragebait to get engagement and foster addiction to the platform, in order to sell more ads.
Hence, morons get a bigger megaphone and groupthink takes over. See also the rise of Nazis/nationalism, etc.
Line go up, corpo no care
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
As long as humans value a forum, of any description, of any economic structure, someone will find a way to corrupt it. The problem isn’t money, the problem is bad actors trying to monopolize your attention. Take away Facebook’s profit structure, does that make a bad actor any less likely to want to post misinformation?
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Capitalism is the problem. Profit driven anything is just a symptom.