banananailgun t1_j6k2erb wrote on January 30, 2023 at 9:55 PM

Reply to comment by SoTiredIYuan in How Big Tech is using mass layoffs to bring workers to heel by diacewrb

>It would not surprise me if the powers that be in government have gotten in cahoots with the powers that be in industry

This is just now occurring to you?

banananailgun t1_j1kthfo wrote on December 25, 2022 at 4:24 AM

Reply to NFL/streaming: YouTube wants to be the only thing you watch by Soupjoe5

The homogenization of YouTube continues

banananailgun t1_iua11j4 wrote on October 29, 2022 at 6:49 PM

Reply to comment by CrypoFiend in Social Media Giants Systemically Fail on Hate and Disinformation, Report Says by HowMyDictates

Because no amount of evidence will make the mob believe that elections in the West are fair. That's why I downvoted you.

We could try your utopian blockchain plan, and hard core Trumpers would still cry foul until he was president again, even if they had to cheat to get him there.

banananailgun t1_iu9qxfn wrote on October 29, 2022 at 5:37 PM

Reply to comment by CrypoFiend in Social Media Giants Systemically Fail on Hate and Disinformation, Report Says by HowMyDictates

The people who believe the 2020 US election was rigged were fine with the outcome of the 2016 election. None of this had anything to do with election integrity, and everything to do with not liking the outcome of the election.

banananailgun t1_iu6irmh wrote on October 28, 2022 at 10:41 PM

Reply to Social Media Giants Systemically Fail on Hate and Disinformation, Report Says by HowMyDictates

Social media sites don't deal well with hate speech and disinformation because hate speech and disinformation make them lots of money. The truth is just plain boring to a lot of people.

Just one easy example: It's so much more exciting for a lot of people to believe that there is a massive, nationwide (potentially international) conspiracy to steal the election from Trump than to accept the boring, hard truth that he simply lost the election. And think of the content that comes with both expanding and refuting the lie. The 2020 election was a godsend to news and social media because they can keep getting advertising dollars for it without having to discover and market a new story.