CNN The 2010s June 4, 2024 01:44:00
The question is very simple. do you believe that genocide happened here or not? i'd say genocide didn't happen. [derek] looking back now, we understand that facebook has discovered that the way to increase engagement on the newsfeed was to accentuate high arousal, negative emotions, not just sadness, not happiness, outrage. so the best way to drive engagement is to put someone in an agitated, emotional state where they're commenting and yelling and fighting with other people online. and there was undeniably a massive attempt to do that, both at facebook and twitter, because it drove advertisin...