Should media platforms stop or slow down their “rabbit hole” feature?

[OddBeMe]

Meaning their “Al Gore Rhythms” that sink people deeper into conspiracies or ideologies (cough Q Anon).

No, it’s how we find better content we like

Yes, it’s creating monsters. Think of the children!

Don’t know.

[NewsReader]

You know why they're doing it? Hint: It's all about money. The more biased and triggering the headline, the higher chance it will be clicked on which leads to greater ad revenue. In reality though, majority of the population want less biased and factual news. All the echo chambers and rabbit holes are not as big as they seem. But the fact that national news organizations are focusing more on a political agenda rather than simply informing readers / viewers caused the public to lose trust in the media.

https://apnews.com/article/television-news-media-business-4367fdad2d6ce6c2c455195f9dfef908

[OddBeMe]

Oh absolutely. I’m not even sure it’s wrong, I make money using their data.

But we do have a problem with people not using critical thinking skills…

[Stoner710]

No we’re not a socialist dictatorship you have free speech. If I want to create a conspiracy theory that AOC is secretly bold and wears a wig I should be able to do that that’s called free speech. Remember except libel and slander. If a white dude what’s to go into the middle of Harlem and shout the N-word the white dude can do that if the people beat him up they go to jail for assault he doesn’t go to jail. Yes what you call hate speech is protected by the constitution.

[OddBeMe]

Don’t believe I said otherwise. I’m talking about the way YouTube and FB collect data on you and push you down rabbit holes until you’re an extremist.

[Stoner710]

Again no because that’s free speech if you want to click on the rabbit hole and go to Vox or whatever whatever white supremacy crap Milo Yiannopoulos is saying go for it that’s free speech.

Yes Ben Shapiro is far right but he’s not a white supremacist Milo is alt right I’m not sure if he is white supremacist, but he does you a lot of antisemitic crap

[AngryCarl2]

No, because if you go far enough down the rabbit hole you might find a sexy lady rabbit.

[msc545]

Unsure.