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The investigation looked at what content from political parties and politicians is shown to newly created accounts that are interested in parties and politicians from either the left or the right.
It found that the algorithms push content from the far right to the right-leaning and left-leaning accounts and, to a lesser extent, push content from the radical left to left-leaning accounts.
I do wonder how much of this is just that moderate parties are boring.
Good policy is boring. Good government is boring. A company with moderate growth targets is boring.
Well-informed, articulate, and smart opinions… are boring.
I think it’s more about rage bait. The far right just happens to have the best rage bait for the moderate majority.
And any resistance to those policies is met with more rage from the right, its a self propelling cycle.
Exactly
Why isn’t class-based rage as popular, then?
because everyone thinks they are middle-class, and everyone aspires to be rich.
very few people think improving the conditions of the working class is a worthwhile goal… the goal is to get out of the working class and feel superior to them.
i grew up a white working class town. Everyone in my town played the lottery and complained about immigrants. They did very little to actually try and improve their town lives… they thought doing so was ‘gay’. They wanted to send their kids to college, but then complained how college ‘corrupted’ us all and turned us into homos, especially when we moved away and got good jobs and had better lives.
Ah yes. The “temporarilly embarrased billionaire”. How could I forget?
What’s baffling is I meet people my own age, who make like 200K a year who also think this exact same way. They think their life right now is impoverished and they deserve to be a billionaire one day. Half my first dates the past couple of years tell me how ‘difficult’ their life is because they can’t afford first class plane tickets.
It’s mind-blowing to me.
Because the right censors that and feeds anti-socialist propaganda to the media so people misunderstand it and don’t try to fight it.
Good ol’ Red Scare propaganda.
Because it’s based on reality and doesn’t pander quite as much.
Also the fact that people with moderate views don’t tend to watch political content all that much.
Yeah “centricism” is just privileged fascism. It’s the privilege of being completely ignorant and complacent while people are genocided, concentration camped, etc.
Overt fascism definitely drives more clicks.
Keeping food in the supermarkets and having working infrastructure will definitely generate less ad revenue… I mean “engagement” than threatening to kill all foreigners and LGBT people.
“Moderates” are right-wing, just like liberals.
But still boring