Manosphere: making bank off of being a dick
I read an article today in Wired about the creation of the “Inside the Manosphere” documentary on Netflix. I may have to watch the actual documentary now as the article intrigued me.
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An abysmal social media dystopia
A lot of social media content is pure fakery. Accounts are created and posts generated entirely to attract eyeballs either for revenue generation, political manipulation, or simply because it is ‘entertaining’ to certain people. The algorithms amplify much of this content towards more and more extreme viewpoints because that is what keeps most of us engaged. This is true because humanity, in the larger sense, is horrible.
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