This won't be the worst thing social media will have to answer for, but it's up there.https://twitter.com/GordonShumway66/status/1096648542561525760 …
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I think social media amplifies the spiral of silence effect. http://noelle-neumann.de/scientific-work/spiral-of-silence/ … by providing massive leverage to minorities with extreme opinions. Antivax is one instance.
@noUpside has a great discussion of it with@SamHarrisOrg in this podcast https://youtu.be/0SXy6MsmFBc1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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I wonder what could be done to make the landscape more representative without a) forcing everyone to weigh in on every subject which obviously can't scale b) without censorship
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Metrics like "views", "engagements", and "watch time" bias systems in this direction.
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