Fix? Bruh, they explicitly cultivate that shit. Even if they could, they're not gonna.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2025
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It's not a glitch.
People have spent billions to build systems where such dissemination of crowd emotion is the main difference from the real web (what was on geocities or even LJ, and a bit of that exists in Telegram, because it's a Russian honeypot to collect intelligence, and Russia could care a bit less about keeping the line that American social media corps, in its effort to make the honeypot actually attractive to use).
Then spent billions to advertise them. Billions to kill competition.
Then they've lost billions from that, and yet doubled down on it.
That just doesn't happen by accident, it's a whole era of humanity's history now. Like 20s-50s (the "bad" kind of change, with goosestepping, cult of strong people, attempts to save empires, preparations for a nuclear war, all that) and 60s-90s (the "good" kind of change, with space race, hippies in the west, Soviet official ideology being peace and unification of humanity - BTW, it's funny how the western politicians of that time freeloaded on that, never denying such a goal, but also never accepting it, thus getting the good parts without the hard ones) and then what we have.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines . . . but they're not even trying.
"Can big tech fix–" "No."
I think a better question would be: Why don't they want to?
Bigger question, why is it techs issue to fix
If I had to give a single reason, it'd probably be because they're the ones, by and large, who are not only providing a platform for the dissemination of these abhorrent views by this trash, but they're directly profiting from it to boot... I feel like that's honestly pretty obvious, though I'm gonna give you the benefit of the doubt here and choose to assume you're genuinely asking and not just being facetious
It's both honestly. Overall I think the issue is rooted more in culture. Not tech. Secondly I am starting to question the role of media in yellow journalism to sell ads online by catering to crowds
Both what? Tf are you talking about??
i think he meant to respond with that to another thread or commenter. likely just a mis-post.
I mean, I guess? I dunno, I kinda wondered that at first, but I'm also kinda at a loss at to what other comment that could be a response to as well...? 🤷♂️ I mean, it seems like it's at least in the right thread, mostly, from the context lol 😂
fix it? it fucking feeds into it!
Only if it's profitable or they're forced to do so through legislation. Otherwise they won't even try.