in other words, more societal disruption and mental health problems.
Comment on Bots increase online user engagement but stifle meaningful discussion, study shows
thehatfox@lemmy.world 1 week agoThe platform owners don’t consider engagement to me be participation in meaningful discourse. Engagement to them just means staying on the platform while seeing ads.
If bots keep people doing that those platforms will keep letting them in.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Which is a good argument for regulation. Regulation prevents industry from doing things that may be in their individual best interest but are against public best interests or the best interests of the industry as a whole.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 6 days ago
Unfortunately, the US administrative state is still being murdered. So, don’t expect act regs or enforcement to be seen out of the US and expect flagrant violation of EU and other regs due to mobster-style protectionism.