🤷 depends who you follow really. Nobody gets their world-view from X, they get it from the people who use X. Admitedly everyone cool already left, but still, not everyone remaining there is andrew tate and jorden peterson.
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But then the view can still be distorted by the algorithm, amplifying issues that are potentially niche but divisive, causing a heap of outrage that ultimately leads to harm in the real world.
Recent events in the UK for example. Take rage baiting out of the equation would we be seeing the violence on the streets we’re seeing now?
Folks are incentivised to create rage and even if a community exits that to you or I are down with, we’re encouraged to amplify the views of people we dislike. Amplifying folks like Farage emboldens the type of bellends we see targeting mosques and little indie shop keepers.