My use of the word meddle may have been imprecise; more exactly I think that they are calculatedly curating how content appears in order to persuade people to vote a certain way or believe certain things. And that they have enough data to do it mathematically, without fail.
3) so I am thinking that certain practices in curating content/juking algorithms that have too high of predictable manipulation is wrong/should be illegal, just like subliminal messages in advertisements is.
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1/ yeah, it's a tough issue. not even breaking them up would really solve the core problem. as of now there isn't proof that they are actively trying to manipulate any election and Congress is pretty shitty about understanding tech in general.
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2/ I think combatting it will take educating children about thinking critically and researching for themselves, threatening to break up big tech to have them place more emphasis on flagging fake news and a lot of luck that another entrant might crack the problem better
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