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Yes_hes_that_guy t1_ivdy8z6 wrote

Reply to comment by TaserLord in Examining 100,000 crime-related posts from 14,000 Facebook pages maintained by U.S. law enforcement agencies between 2010 and 2019, researchers found that Facebook users are exposed to posts that overrepresent Black suspects by 25% relative to local arrest rates by giuliomagnifico

This isn’t about the platform itself. It’s about the departments’ choices of which arrests to report on publicly. This study does focus on Facebook because it’s the most popular platform, making the dataset larger, but it isn’t about algorithms like I initially assumed before reading the study.

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howelftw t1_ivfkgk6 wrote

Yes I agree with you it's not about the platform itself it's about the departments of choices.

The algorithm of these platforms shows the people what they want to see and the people nowadays are more interested in discrimination and racial abuse.

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