Comment on “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoBillionaires are running the most popular social media sites and utilizing the algorithm to attempt to influence their addicted userbase on a large scale, and succeeded on many demographics and even win elections.
I don’t think it is a stretch to call it a moral panic, because its not an unbiased and transparent system that is dictating what is seen and spread. It is a huge black box propganda tool.
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Except the propaganda mostly isn’t what the “social media addiction” folks are worrying about.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Even people who don’t care about usage of propaganda are affected, since these social media addicted folks have brought up how they are getting more unrelated propaganda content exposed to them even if all they want to see is cats and food recipes as an example.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
The “social media is a drug” people are interested in using this pseudo-science to promote more of their propaganda and eliminate counter-narratives.
TikTok? Anybody remember what happened there? Exactly this.