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minus-squareIronBird@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down14·edit-212 hours agonews networks have been doing this same pretty much since they’ve existed
minus-squareRipLemmDotEE@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·10 hours agoNo, news networks are not algorithmically curating content specifically for each individual person, based on personal traits that they record based on usage.
minus-squareporcoesphino@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·11 hours agoHumans have been killing each other as long as we’ve existed isn’t an argument to avoid trying to make it happen less
minus-squareIronBird@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 hours agojust saying billionaires manipulating shit has been the norm for ages, which is why we used to have media-ownership limits…repealed under Clinton iirc
minus-squareporcoesphino@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoYeah, by memory Rupert Murdoch had his hand at that and in Aus and the UK. I’d love to see that reined in again too
minus-squarepipi1234@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-24 hours agoAgreed, but now they have tools that enable them to do it with unprecedented impact. In my opinion, the difference is so huge, we might as well think they didn’t manipulate things at all before.
news networks have been doing this same pretty much since they’ve existed
No, news networks are not algorithmically curating content specifically for each individual person, based on personal traits that they record based on usage.
Humans have been killing each other as long as we’ve existed isn’t an argument to avoid trying to make it happen less
just saying billionaires manipulating shit has been the norm for ages, which is why we used to have media-ownership limits…repealed under Clinton iirc
Yeah, by memory Rupert Murdoch had his hand at that and in Aus and the UK. I’d love to see that reined in again too
Agreed, but now they have tools that enable them to do it with unprecedented impact.
In my opinion, the difference is so huge, we might as well think they didn’t manipulate things at all before.