It’s difficult to overestimate how much loosely moderated social platforms combined with payment platforms have created an absolute explosion of grifters who use algorithmically amplified anger to enrich themselves while destroying society.
https://twitter.com/slpng_giants/status/1348147443221688320
Because of the social networks’ inability to moderate (or perhaps interest in not moderating), we are now seeing the biproducts:
Radicalized masses of people intent on burning down democracy because of disinformation and well-paid con artists furious that they’ve been made.
Radicalized masses of people intent on burning down democracy because of disinformation and well-paid con artists furious that they’ve been made.
This is not and has never been about free speech. It’s about reach and about cash.
Reach for those who want to sway the masses in their favor politically and cash for those capitalizing on the anger that comes from it.
The platforms made it all happen.
Reach for those who want to sway the masses in their favor politically and cash for those capitalizing on the anger that comes from it.
The platforms made it all happen.
And they profited more than anyone else, by the way.
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