Comment on “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial
RipLemmDotEE@lemmy.today 6 days agoNo, news networks are not algorithmically curating content specifically for each individual person, based on personal traits that they record based on usage.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days 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.
RipLemmDotEE@lemmy.today 4 days 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.