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A viral left-wing Twitter account may have been fake all along [WaPo] (archive.is)
submitted 1 year ago by hedge@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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"The Erica Marsh account shows how ‘rage baiting’ remains a powerful way to win attention and score political points"

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[–] BurningnnTree@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why I hate Twitter and Facebook. Their algorithms are designed to promote posts that cause political division.

[–] Donkdonkboom@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Any service where you viewing ads is the actual product is the same. YouTube reliably will serve me up recommended videos with titles like "dumb lib-slammed!" or "pwning liberals at the library" or other random things. I never watch them and am confused why they keep sending them my way. The stuff being foisted on people is just toxic.