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• RipLemmDotEE@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No, news networks are not algorithmically curating content specifically for each individual person, based on personal traits that they record based on usage.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes they are. That’s what Fox news does. It curates content specifically for their wacky users.

    Whether they use an “algorithm” or not is a meaningless difference based on luddism.

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    • RipLemmDotEE@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Fox is curating content for their viewer base as a a whole.

      Corporate social media is targeting each individual user based on their identity and preferences.

      While similar, they are not the same.

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• porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Humans have been killing each other as long as we’ve existed isn’t an argument to avoid trying to make it happen less

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  • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    just saying billionaires manipulating shit has been the norm for ages, which is why we used to have media-ownership limits…repealed under Clinton iirc

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    • pipi1234@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Agreed, but know they have tools that enable them to do it with unprecedented impact.

      In my opinion, the difference is so huge, we might as well think they didn’t manipulate things at all before.

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      • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Agreed, but now they have tools that enable them to do it with unprecedented impact.

        Yes tools like TikTok that libs lobbied to hand to fascists. Now they want more of the same.

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    • porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, by memory Rupert Murdoch had his hand at that and in Aus and the UK. I’d love to see that reined in again too

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Murder =/= social media.

    It’s pretty sad that I have to say this. People are really losing their minds of this “social media” hype.

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    • porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      🤦‍♂️ Don’t put words in my mouth to try to make an argument

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