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TheLinden t1_ixr2d65 wrote

I appreciate the study but twitter employees already knew that.

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amadeus2490 t1_ixrht01 wrote

Founding members of Facebook held public lectures on it, saying that they noted people wanted to argue in the comments so they wound up rigging the whole site to rile people up.... and indirectly manipulated news websites to make more inflammatory headlines and op-ed pieces, too.

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TheLinden t1_ixsclov wrote

Yeah it is worrying.

I remember news about japanese twitter getting more chill after twitter employees got fired by elon.

It went from toxic politics arguments to idols, anime and other entertainment stuff.

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