• Eve_Rising [she/her]
    ·
    3 hours ago

    Yeah and conspiracies are literally all pervasive at this point. I think covid isolation pushed ppl online a lot more and broke a whole lot of brains

    • Tom742 [they/them, any]
      ·
      2 hours ago

      Hadn’t thought about the pushing people online aspect, I think we’ve known for a while what the negative effects are but not until now has it become so pervasive we can see the effects en mass

      • Eve_Rising [she/her]
        ·
        2 hours ago

        Yeah I've seen at least two studies showing that no matter what stuff you're into online, the algo pushes you into the right-wing and into conspiracies, which both tend to overlap. I know FB and YT shifted their algos in 2019 (and obvs X later) after RWers threw a fit that they were "biased" against conservative hate-content. Now it's like no matter what I watch on YT I get anti trans and RW bullshit. I literally never click on them, yet they keep getting pushed