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Amran Gowani's avatar

Well said. There's also the obligatory reference to content ranking algorithms. Negativity is more powerful, the algorithm grabs it, promotes it, creates more negativity, and boom, we're in a despair death spiral.

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Steve QJ's avatar

Yep, we really need to reckon with “the algorithm” at some point. These companies are knowingly dividing and deceiving people for profit.

As I was saying to someone else recently, it was t until I started writing seriously and researching sources carefully that I realised how partial and/or flat out inaccurate a lot of the information we receive is.

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