Social Media companies appear to have been hopelessly naive about the dark side of social psychology. Near religious “techno optimism” blinded them from seeing how their platforms could be misused.https://www.wired.com/story/inside-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-2-years-of-hell …
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Hard not to read such things without gritting teeth in frustration. This was apparently a revelation?pic.twitter.com/uzIlsPcpWG
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Compared to what? Does social media reward sensationalism over accuracy and depth more or less than print media does?
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Thomas Harris describes a newsroom scientifically optimising stories for sales in Red Dragon, which was what, 1986?
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