• Meldroc@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Algorithm’s designed to promote engagement. Getting angry groups screaming and trying to murder people counts as engagement.

    As long as the screaming and arguing happens on their site and drives ad revenue, they don’t care about the murdering part.

    • SJ0@lemmy.fbxl.net
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      1 year ago

      Good point!

      I’ve written before that I think a lot of these sites intentionally do the Jerry Springer thing.