Disinformation is part and parcel of social media’s business model, new research shows
Carlos Diaz Ruiztheconversation.com
Disinformation is part and parcel of social media’s business model, new research shows
“The notion that you’re going to pay some subscription fee and then you’ll feature more prominently in the algorithm — there’s a name for that: It’s advertising,” said Jason Goldman, a former VP of product at Twitter from 2007 to 2010. “It’s just a different way of pricing it.”
Shirin Ghaffaryvox.comThe marketplace of attention was supposed to solve this problem; we were told that the good channels would be elevated by the platforms and that people would stop watching the bad channels. But the marketplace of attention cares only about attention. The assumption that low-quality or dishonest or dangerous content wouldn’t get clicked
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And yet of all the takes that landed over the weekend, none stuck with me more than this post from comedian Josh Gondelman. “I know people are saying not to spread conspiracy theories right now,” he wrote on Saturday in a viral X post, “but I would like to read them.”
Gondelman’s post, which has received nearly 70,000 likes, resonated because it spe... See more
Gondelman’s post, which has received nearly 70,000 likes, resonated because it spe... See more
Casey Newton • Start the Conversation
“We emphasize domination and competition in the management of trees in forests… We emphasize factions instead of coalitions,” wrote Simard. It applies to the web, too. Social media companies segment and isolate us in order to package us up in tidy tranches for advertisers, just as big timber clear-cuts healthy, complex ecosystems and replaces them ... See more
newpublic.org • The word for web is forest
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