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The Internet may be for porn, but social media has also made it exceptionally good for promoting wackadoo theories and linking the far-flung people who believe them. This is hardly news at this point, but Weill outlines how Facebook’s and YouTube’s algorithms very, very rapidly funneled viewers toward extreme, incendiary, radicalizing content. It’s done just so viewers will stay online longer and so Facebook and YouTube would rake in the resultant ad revenue.

“Flat Earth was algorithm gold,” Weill notes. Even Globe Earthers (in case you were wondering what the opposite of Flat Earthers are called) made Flat Earth videos as a sure way to make a quick buck. (In January 2019, YouTube changed its algorithm, so watching a NASA video no longer automatically leads you to a Flat Earth video as it used to.)

Then, against the backdrop of the president of the United States spouting conspiracy theories daily, the pandemic locked everyone at home glued to their screens all day as their only connection to the (very troubling and scary) world outside. It was at this point that Facebook exposed unprecedented numbers of lonely, isolated, vulnerable people to conspiracy theories online. And unprecedented numbers believed.

“Conspiratorial thinking is not a weird pathology,” Weill writes. Our brains’ propensity for seeing patterns even when there are none and creating narratives to explain events we find hard to understand means that many people are susceptible. Constantly bombarding people with misinformation feeds into this tendency. Cult leaders know this; totalitarian regimes know it, too. And as Weill delved into this ultimate case study of fringe subcultures to learn how people can believe strange things, she said what she ended up learning is that “people can believe anything they want to.”

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12 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

The Internet may be for porn, but social media has also made it exceptionally good for promoting wackadoo theories and linking the far-flung people who believe them. This is hardly news at this point, but Weill outlines how Facebook’s and YouTube’s algorithms very, very rapidly funneled viewers toward extreme, incendiary, radicalizing content. It’s done just so viewers will stay online longer and so Facebook and YouTube would rake in the resultant ad revenue.

“Flat Earth was algorithm gold,” Weill notes. Even Globe Earthers (in case you were wondering what the opposite of Flat Earthers are called) made Flat Earth videos as a sure way to make a quick buck. (In January 2019, YouTube changed its algorithm, so watching a NASA video no longer automatically leads you to a Flat Earth video as it used to.)

Then, against the backdrop of the president of the United States spouting conspiracy theories daily, the pandemic locked everyone at home glued to their screens all day as their only connection to the (very troubling and scary) world outside. It was at this point that Facebook exposed unprecedented numbers of lonely, isolated, vulnerable people to conspiracy theories online. And unprecedented numbers believed.

“Conspiratorial thinking is not a weird pathology,” Weill writes. Our brains’ propensity for seeing patterns even when there are none and creating narratives to explain events we find hard to understand means that many people are susceptible. Constantly bombarding people with misinformation feeds into this tendency. Cult leaders know this; totalitarian regimes know it, too. And as Weill delved into this ultimate case study of fringe subcultures to learn how people can believe strange things, she said what she ended up learning is that “people can believe anything they want to.”

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Too many words for our friend with the limited intellect to understand. How did he reply I wonder? Actually I don’t wonder.. I know without even looking.

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1 minute ago, Motobiker said:

Too many words for our friend with the limited intellect to understand. How did he reply I wonder? Actually I don’t wonder.. I know without even looking.

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2 hours ago, boboneleg said:

The Internet may be for porn, but social media has also made it exceptionally good for promoting wackadoo theories and linking the far-flung people who believe them. This is hardly news at this point, but Weill outlines how Facebook’s and YouTube’s algorithms very, very rapidly funneled viewers toward extreme, incendiary, radicalizing content. It’s done just so viewers will stay online longer and so Facebook and YouTube would rake in the resultant ad revenue.

“Flat Earth was algorithm gold,” Weill notes. Even Globe Earthers (in case you were wondering what the opposite of Flat Earthers are called) made Flat Earth videos as a sure way to make a quick buck. (In January 2019, YouTube changed its algorithm, so watching a NASA video no longer automatically leads you to a Flat Earth video as it used to.)

Then, against the backdrop of the president of the United States spouting conspiracy theories daily, the pandemic locked everyone at home glued to their screens all day as their only connection to the (very troubling and scary) world outside. It was at this point that Facebook exposed unprecedented numbers of lonely, isolated, vulnerable people to conspiracy theories online. And unprecedented numbers believed.

“Conspiratorial thinking is not a weird pathology,” Weill writes. Our brains’ propensity for seeing patterns even when there are none and creating narratives to explain events we find hard to understand means that many people are susceptible. Constantly bombarding people with misinformation feeds into this tendency. Cult leaders know this; totalitarian regimes know it, too. And as Weill delved into this ultimate case study of fringe subcultures to learn how people can believe strange things, she said what she ended up learning is that “people can believe anything they want to.”

My dick is huge.:classic_rolleyes:

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1 minute ago, Marcel said:

Mine too...when they preformed the circumcision they used the left over skin and graffed it to a poor soul who lost a leg ...

Maybe you should donate the extra skin on your neck, you multi chinned twat.

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57 minutes ago, Marcel said:

Mine too...when they preformed the circumcision they used the left over skin and graffed it to a poor soul who lost a leg ...

Fuckmine, I wondered where my graft came from ...................

 

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22 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

Fuckmine, I wondered where my graft came from ...................

 

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Does it stiffen up when you have strawberry ice cream?

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