Comment on Social media is becoming infested with climate change denial and misinformation
kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Yes, it’s a dangerous combination of media/IT illiteracy/incompetence within the general public and profit-driven proprietary social media algorithms that only aim to keep people engaged for the longest time, no matter the content they are being served. And usually, the more extreme the content is, the higher the engagement, the more revenue to be made from serving ads to the users and selling their collected data. This currently leads to a rise of misinformation, anti-scientific thinking, and so on. Which just so happens to align with extreme right-wing ideologies.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
It’s not some accident that just happens. Fash are actively opposed to science, thrive on misinformation, and so on.