Many of my friends find their parents have been manipulated by cult tactics on social media and alternative news sources to become highly polarised and iconoclastic. We need to arm them with compassion, critial thinking and learning on how manipulation tactics are deployed online
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It's human weakness vs recommendation engines, data mining and pursuit of profit above human rights. Any thoughts on how to counter this stuff other? Use open source platforms? Use VPNs? How do you undermine the effectiveness of such tech in the short term? Take digital holidays?
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I don't have a good answer other than not giving them the attention they need to thrive. I'm still here though, but I've had a much better experience than in other platforms.
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